Taking a fresh look at the state of autobiography as a genre, The
Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real takes a deep dive
into the experience of the reader. Dr. Schmitt argues that current
trends in the field of life writing have taken the focus away from
the text and the initial purpose of autobiography as a means for
the author to communicate with a reader and narrate an experience.
The study puts autobiography back into a communicational context,
and putting forth the notion that one of the reasons why life
writing can so often be aesthetically unsatisfactory, or difficult
to distinguish from novels, is because it should not be considered
as a literary genre, but as a modality with radically different
rules and means of evaluation. In other words, not only is
autobiography radically different from fiction due to its
referentiality, but, first and foremost, it should be read
differently.
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