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Drawing on Michel de Certeau's conceptualisation of the city space in The Practice of Everyday Life, in conversation with AbdouMaliq Simone's approach to the African city, this article explores the problem of belonging in Ufrieda Ho's Paper Sons and Daughters: Growing Up Chinese in South Africa (2011). The text's navigation of the manifold ascribed and asserted identities of the autobiographical self is made prominent through Ho's tracing of the traversals of both her father and herself across Johannesburg. In particular, the illegal gambling game of fahfee and its operation become emblematic of the imbrication of Chinese immigrants within the urban space, positioning the figures in the text within the broader historical and literary archive of Johannesburg and thereby asserting a rootedness within the (post-)apartheid city. It highlights the complexity of the relationship between the self and the (post-)apartheid city and the formulations of belonging that arise as a result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the newly published autobiography of Yang Yi, a renowned English-to-Chinese translator in modern China. The autobiography provides insights into social life in China and presents a left-elite historical narrative of the Republic of China. Yang's autobiography covers her family background, education, interactions with famous writers, and her experiences during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The article highlights the importance of Yang's autobiography as a primary source for understanding the history of modern China, particularly in relation to the elite society and the history of sexuality. [Extracted from the article]

In this brief comment on Romano's (2022) paper "The autobiographical roots of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology", it is questioned whether it is methodologically correct to find in the narration of Alfred Adler's dramatic childhood experiences the only radical foundation of the construction of his theoretical system and of the conflict with Freud. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper looks at human development from an existential perspective. What is revealed is that human development is a lifelong process of the acquisition of the skills of living. Moreover that these are present in seven invariant themes that manifest in different ways throughout life. They are: age and ageing; narrative and autobiography; beginnings and endings; embodiment; randomness and chance; adversity; and love. These are considered in the light of psychotherapeutic practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Examines the distinction between fact and fiction in the book "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft," by George Gissing. Relationship between the character of Ryecroft and Gissing according to Jackson I. Cope; Essential factors identified by Philippe Lejeune which distinguish an autobiography from fiction; Complications which obstruct a reader for identifying a resemblance between Ryecroft and Gissing.

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The author invites scholars from South Asian nations to contribute their papers with focus on important autobiographies and biographies in all of South Asia. He describes how autobiographies and biographies occupy an important place in Indian writing in English. He then offers a rationale and justification for writing autobiography, citing leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. In addition, the author explores the controversial nature of biographies and autobiographies.

The aim of the present paper is to discuss the process of self-creation discernible in hitherto unpublished letters written by Wanda Dynowska-Umadevi to Tadeusz Szukiewicz, her literary representative in Poland, acting on her behalf in 1938-1939. Besides discussing the documentary value of the letters, which, for instance, shed some light on Dynowska's relationship with Tadeusz Pobożniak and her other eminent contemporaries, or contextualize the origin of selected volumes published afterwards with Biblioteka Polsko-Indyjska (Polish-Indian Library), I also try to show that the manner of Dynowska's self-creation in the personal documents that predominantly concern the efforts to publish her articles intended to popularize India in Poland could have been shaped by the particular addressee of her letters, and thus culminated in Dynowska projecting herself in her own writings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Editorial reports how the depletion force theory was originally developed by Sho Asakura and Fumio Oosawa and how their one-page paper was "rediscovered" about 20 years after the paper was published. The first part of this Editorial is mostly based on the lecture by Oosawa and his autobiographies, and the second part is written by one of two scientists who found the paper. The aim of this Editorial is to record the background of the discovery of the depletion force. We believe that this Editorial presents an interesting story showing how science develops. The story reminds us of the importance of basic education and continuous interests in unknown phenomena and interactions between people of different disciplines, although they are sometimes considered as separate elements of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the autobiographical notes by painter Gerald Murphy from the papers of curator Douglas MacAgy. On May 17, 1962, MacAgy wrote to Murphy and requested him to expand and clarify certain points of biography and work. MacAgy's inquiries and Murphy's notes are contained in the Douglas MacAgy Papers at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. An excerpt from Murphy's October 24, 1962 set of notes commenting on MacAgy's summary of his production is provided. According to the article, Murphy's numbered answers correspond to numbers in MacAgy's typescript.

Taking their inspiration from philosophy, human sciences have learnt that collecting people's life history is fundamental to understand and clarify situations and the «lebenswelt» of human beings. Life histories and the narrations of self provide the human scientist a deeper wiew and comprehension of the causes and reasons that other methodologies, such as observation, cannot get. Everyone is a storyteller of himself and such narrations of self enable us to know the invisible and the inner life of all our similars. Starting from this convinction Duccio Demetrio sees writing as a fundamental exercise that everyone should do in order to get a better knowledge of himself. An exercise that is also and mainly a pleasure and a way to «play seriously» with our own identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

They have tried printing without all the make-ready that Middleton relied on, and they tried printing with dampened tympans, not only to discover the details of Bewick's work but also to recreate the methods of early nineteenth-century printers. 'To do justice to his engraving printers must first immerse themselves in Bewick's masterful technique and understand how the blocks were intended to perform.... Those who will never print can improve their looking by better understanding what Bewick accomplished' (p. 252). That has not prevented skilled printers since from exploring what Bewick was trying to achieve. [Extracted from the article]

The author discusses the lessons he has learned in the process of performing the research that led to his first publication on the photochemistry of β,γ‐unsaturated ketones in 1970 and to his latest publication on the history of the Woodward–Hoffmann rules in 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

John Sung (1901–1944) was a prominent Chinese Christian evangelist whose enduring influence is still recognized through China and Southeast Asia. His reputation has long been based primarily on his autobiography and excerpts from his diaries that his daughter Levi Sung selected and published. The correspondence, writings, and extensive diaries of Sung recently acquired by the Yale Divinity Library shed new light on his life and work. This article gives a detailed account of provenance, content, and format of all the materials included in the Sung papers. They are invaluable to the study and rediscovery of Sung's life, thought, and ministry as well as the history and development of indigenous Christianity and churches in China and Southeast Asia. This article also examines Sung's English diaries from the period of his hospitalization in a psychiatric facility to reveal complexities in Sung that have been less evident in published biographies and writings. Five additional original diary entries will be compared to their published versions to reveal alterations, deletions, and inaccuracies in the published extracts. The comparative study demonstrates that the diary extracts compiled by Levi, which are the most commonly-cited source on Sung, are in some cases problematic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers the staging of documents and national identity in Talgat Batalov’s 2012 theatre productionUzbek, an autobiographical solo show that recounts Batalov’s experience emigrating from Tashkent to Moscow at the age of nineteen. Through its close reading ofUzbekin performance, this study illustrates how the author uses irony and humor to both embody and elucidate the sociospatial discourse that posits Russia as the “modern center” to Central Asia’s “pre-modern periphery.” Additionally, this article explores how by presenting his audiences with his actual immigration records, and undermining their credibility, Batalov activates the unreliable status of documents in contemporary Russian culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rhetoric of Emily and Anne Brontës' Diary Papers is closely examined in order to assert that these texts notably fashioned Emily as a speaker, a woman and a writer, creating a blurred ethôs of secrecy, defiance and fiction that prevented any intrusive reader from authorizing her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The Novel as readers now understand it did not really exist as a literary form in English during the late seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth", John Richetti (2017: 152) has recently pointed out. Prior to this, in 1957, Ian Watt conceptualised the "myth of modern individualism". This paper focuses on Robinson Crusoe and the rise of the English novel, revisiting some key excerpts in order to propose a new approach to the new genre. Michael McKeon (2017: 67) postulated that "The novel crystallizes genreness, we might say, selfconsciously incorporating, as part of its form, the problem of its own categorical status". This paper addresses the above proposal, examining the adventures of the eponymous voyager from York. In particular, it pays attention to the various means by which reality is recorded in his autobiographical account, as well as the numerous narrative forms through which the reader is presented with the events of Crusoe's life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the papers of author Robert K. Greenleaf in the Yale Divinity Library. Topics discussed include papers featuring professional life of Greenleaf; collections including autobiographical material, correspondence, subject files, writings and memorabilia; and subject files on various topics including Mead Corporation, Loveless and Management Objectives Program.

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The paper briefly presents the main stages of the development of the Triestine literary tradition, which phenomenon begins to be widely noticed already in the 1930s. At that time, the first generation of a new Triestine literature (with its main pioneers - Italo Svevo, Scipio Slataper, Umberto Saba) became an interesting object of study for those critics and scholars who were able to distinguish some of its essential features. Subsequently, the author focuses on the idea of Triestine identity presented by a contemporary Italian writer Claudio Magris in a book entitled Trieste. Un'identità di frontiera. Then, the author proposes her interpretation of Magris' novel Microcosms, presenting it as the most significant attempt of expressing both writer's and city's Triestine identity; a portrayal of the city of paper re-written in the language and style of an essayistic, autobiographical novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Yiddish-language memoirs of the journalist Getzel Zelikovits (1855-1926), published in New York in 1919-1920, present a version of his life that deviates considerably from the version one might glean from other contemporary testimony, such as newspaper articles and institutional records. This paper examines how Zelikovits constructed a counterfactual narrative in which he seeks to present his readership with his life as it should have been. As well as Zelikovits's sense of injustice at how he had been treated by European and American academia, and by the British and French establishments, another reason for his deviation from the truth is that he was guilty of a number of serious offences: academic fraud, false accusation of murder, and likely sexual assault. I conclude by exploring what is at stake for a biographer, from an ethical and scholarly standpoint, in exposing Zelikovits's misdeeds and untruths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historians of sociology have long recognized the Protestant ambience within which the discipline emerged in the United States. Autobiographies elicited by L. L. Bernard in the 1920s and 1930s provide insight into the impact of this background on early American sociologists. In addition to confirming the importance of mainstream Protestantism, the autobiographies reveal a multitude of identity strategies adopted by those who came to call themselves sociologists. In negotiating the relation of religious and secular spheres, some abandoned religion en route to a sociological career. Others became sociologists of religion, separated value-laden (religious) aspects of their lives from value-neutral (sociological) endeavors, created a sociologically informed mode of Protestantism, or molded a Protestant sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Space is man-made socially constructed locations, without which they cannot have a comfortable life. Reflecting on the life experiences of the people who exist in the margins of the society, autobiography appears to be the appropriate genre that reflects the lived experiences of the characters as they live through them. It reflects not only the author's personal experiences but also the people whom they meet in their lifeworld. In other words, it is a narration of both individual and collective lived experiences. Dalit writing in Indian literature has become the most controversial topic in recent times, taking autobiography as its predominant form of writing. This paper attempts to explore Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke as a self-reflexive narrative. The characters experience extreme humiliation in the public and private spheres of their lives. The purpose of the paper is to categorise their absolute humiliation experience using Van Manen's lifeworld existentialism and self-reflexivity as a theoretical framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An essay is presented on the collections of Cassiano dal Pozzo called the Paper Museum. It offers a biography of Cassiano dal Pozzo who is considered as one of the best art patrons in Italy in the seventeenth-century. The authors relate the story of how the Paper Museum was started up to the time the drawings were scattered to different parts of the world. The fully illustrated catalogue of the entire Paper Museum divides into Antiquities and Architecture (Series A) and Natural History (Series B).

This paper brings to light the autobiographical elements of Henrik Ibsen’s life (the limitations faced by him in real life) as dramatized in his plays. This study explores that Ibsen’s plays become an exercise in delving deep into the limitations faced by his near and dear ones as well as by himself. The characters in his plays often mirror his parents, and his own social and psychological sufferings and conflicts. Most of the autobiographical findings in this paper about Ibsen’s life, the limitations he faced in life, and the characters created by him which personify his own self, are based on the comments of different critics, and his biography written by his foremost biographer Michael Meyer. The limitations Ibsen faced, suffered, and portrayed in his plays are his poverty and financial problems, the scar of illegitimacy, his father’s bankruptcy, his cowardliness, his isolation in society, his loveless marriage, his fear of heights, his fears of youth in old age, his attraction to young women, and finally his emotional bankruptcy. This study brings to light all the mentioned autobiographical elements in Ibsen’s plays, how he climbed to the heights of arts and achieved materialistic success, fame, and popularity, yet at the cost of his emotional and spiritual sacrifices. This work will help the readers to find close resemblances between Ibsen’s real life and the characters he produced in his plays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents lesson plans for middle level school that undertake a mulitmodal autobiography project, a local research project on the school's history and paired students background project.