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Le pacte autobiographique
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Memory of the Third Reich in Hitler Youth memoirs
TL;DR: This paper examined how the Hitler Youth generation represented their pasts in memoirs written in West Germany, post-unification Germany, and North America, and argued for a more nuanced reading of Nazi-related memoirs and made the case that public memory is not necessarily reflected on a personal level.
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Les Ecrits indiscrets. Autoreprésentation et forme de l'écriture de soi dans l'oeuvre de Diderot
TL;DR: Les Ecrits indiscrets as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays written by Diderot in the early 1770s, with the aim of revisiting l'œuvre d'un point de vue a la fois intime et speculaire, montrant comment l’ecrivain y fait volontiers intervenir son propre personnage sur un mode scientifique.
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Turning nature into essays: the epistemological and poetic function of the nature essay
TL;DR: In this paper, the nature essay is defined as "a way of knowing and making sense of nature" and a way of "collecting and connecting" with nature in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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American Neoconfessional: Memoir, Self-Help, and Redemption on Oprah's Couch
TL;DR: This paper read the scandal surrounding James Frey's memoir A Million Little Pieces as part of a developing brand, the American neoconfessional, and questions how memoirs, as a part of this brand, present "reading in public" as a mode of civic engagement that teaches readers to consume and judge "similar others".
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Coming out of the coming out story: Writing queer lives
TL;DR: The authors examines the challenges posed to the western lesbian and gay life writing paradigm of the coming out story by postmodern and global cultures, examining two memoirs published in the 1990s that queer the coming-out plot, one of an American lesbian-turned-heterosexual, the other of a Chinese woman describing her relationships with women and men during the Cultural Revolution.