Refractions of the Self: Forms and Genres of Autobiographies and Memoirs in Russian Culture of Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Smith, A. (Contributor)

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups

Description

Dr Smith's role is to examine works written by 20th-c. Russian emigre authors and present papers at two conferences (May 2011 and May 2013) and is a member of the Editorial board.

Period	2012 → …
Work for	University of Padua, Italy

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The project, following the theoretical debate blossomed in the United States of America and in France, aims at reconstructing the genesis of the autobiographical and contiguous forms between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth centuries, paying attention to the artistic genres of portrait and self portrait. The group will try to define the still open issues on the terminology and genre definition. In particular, autochthonous (especially those of hagiography and of chronicles) and foreign (especially the confession) models that cross into modern Russian memoirs and autobiographies will be examined