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‘How it all turned out alright’: Autofiction as Memory Form in Irena Dousková’s Novels about Childhood and Youth in Post-1968 Czechoslovakia “一切如何变得好”:作为记忆形式的自传体小说在Irena douskov<s:1> 1968年后捷克斯洛伐克的童年和青年小说中

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37604

Anja Tippner

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The Mask in Verse. Imaginary Poets and Their Autobiographical Poetry (Jan Wagner, Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern) 诗歌中的面具。想象中的诗人和他们的自传体诗(扬·瓦格纳，《尤伦哈瑟在天堂》Hallenhäusern)

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37637

Jutta Müller-Tamm

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Remembering Late Socialism in Autobiographical Novels and Autofictions from Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction 从中欧和东欧的自传体小说和自传体小说中回忆晚期社会主义:导论

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37602

A. Mrozik, Anja Tippner

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Growing Up as a Girl in Late Socialist Poland: The Personal, the Political and Class in Feminist Quasi-Autobiographical Novels by Izabela Filipiak and Joanna Bator 在社会主义晚期波兰成长为一个女孩:伊莎贝拉·菲利皮亚克和乔安娜·巴托的女性主义准自传体小说中的个人、政治和阶级

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37603

A. Mrozik

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The Self in Verse. Exploring Autobiographical Poetry. Editorial 诗中的自我。探索自传体诗歌。编辑

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37636

Johannes Görbert, Marie Lindskov Hansen, J. Wolf

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Migrating Objects and Wanderers between Worlds: Cosmopolitan Selves in Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes 世界之间的迁徙对象和流浪者:埃德蒙·德瓦尔《琥珀眼的野兔》中的世界主义自我

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37707

Eveline Kilian

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Reanimating/Resisting Late Soviet Monstrosity: Generational Self-Reflection and Lessons of Responsibility in Alexei Ivanov’s Pischeblok [The Food Unit] 复活/抵抗苏联晚期的怪物:阿列克谢·伊万诺夫的《食物单位》中代代性的自我反思和责任教训

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37606

Ksenia Robbe

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Philippe Artières, Un Séminariste assassin: L’affaire Bladier, 1905 菲利普artieres，神学院学生杀人犯:刀锋案，1905年

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.10.37584

M. Lyons

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‘Which I Presume is Permitted, Since We Are Talking About A Writer.’ Lateness, Memory, and Imagination in Literary Autobiography 我想这是允许的，因为我们在谈论一个作家。文学自传中的迟到、记忆与想象

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.37328

Melissa Schuh

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The Limits of Autobiographical Logic. On the Impossibility of Narrating One’s Death 自传体逻辑的极限。论叙述死亡的不可能性

European Journal of Life Writing Pub Date : 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.21827/EJLW.9.37324

M. Mayer

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