In engaging with acts of self-narration that cross species lines, creators of animal autobiographies also broach questions about genre, truth status, and the structure as well as the politics of narrative representation. To address these questions, the present article draws not just on scholarship on (animal) autobiography but also on ideas from the fields of linguistic semantics, politeness th...

The article presents the childhood years of Jewish female students medical department Kyiv Higher Courses for Women, as described in their own autobiographies. study autobiographical images reveals transformations relationships between parents and daughters families modern period, variability home upbringing girls, obligatory component education. admission to educational institutions determined...

This book celebrates 100 years since the Nobel Prize was awarded to Sir William Lawrence Bragg (WLB) and his father Sir William Henry Bragg (WHB): the first of a long list (at least 25) of Nobel Prizes earned by scientists exploiting Max von Laue’s discovery of X-ray diffraction by crystals in 1912. The prize awarded to the Braggs also established two other records: the youngest Nobel laureate ...

Abstract The two autobiographies, of V. Y. Mudimbe and Jan Vansina, published in 1994, have many resemblances (both men have worked mainly in Zaire and have spent much of their careers in the United States) and contrasts (one being a philosopher and the other an historian). Vansina has been concerned especially with African history over a long period as it can be constructed from research into ...

The critical theories on autobiography tend to marginalize women's autobiography-writing and often have a strong subjective as well as objective bias against it. This chapter is an attempt to prove that most of the critical theories established by the male tradition are not applicable to women's life writing due to biological, socio-political as well as psycho-cultural reasons; that women's aut...