Autobiography as Criticism, Criticism as Autobiography

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Autistic autobiography.

Autism narratives are not just stories or histories, describing a given reality. They are creating the language in which to describe the experience of autism, and hence helping to forge the concepts in which to think autism. This paper focuses on a series of autobiographies that began with Grandin's Emergence. These are often said to show us autism from the 'inside'. The paper proposes that ins...

Autocitation and Autobiography

The life-experience shared by Dante and Forese thus assumes a metaphoric value in the Comedy that bears little relation to anything we know about the two men. Forese stands in Dante's personal lexicon for his own compromised historical identity, the fosti meco, equal io teco fui"-brought painfully into the present-"il memorar presente." Their life together represents everything the saved soul r...

Autobiography of David Chandler.

I was born the younger of my parents’ two children, on October 15, 1944, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, in New York. Except for two years when I was five and six years old, I spent my formative years in Great Neck, a north shore Long Island suburb of New York City, where I benefited from material comforts, excellent schools, and abundant opportunities for cultural and recreational activities. My ...

Autobiography of Shaul Mukamel.

I was born in Baghdad, Iraq, on December 11, 1948. Mesopotamia, now Iraq, had an old Jewish community that dated back 2600 years from the time of the destruction of the first Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. The Jews of Mesopotamia excelled as merchants, craftsmen, and rabbinic scholars. They created the Talmud, an important analysis of the Jewish legal code. The vast majority of the Jews immigrated...