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- Title
Zum Stand und zu den Perspektiven der Autobiographieforschung in der Geschichtswissenschaft.
- Authors
Depkat, Volker
- Abstract
The article discusses the connections and competition between the genres of autobiography and contemporary history. It notes a proliferation of interest among historians in studying or utilizing autobiographies in their research and situates this interest in the broader trends of historical research, such as cultural history, the history of mentalities, and ego documents. It also addresses questions of historiographical methodology and source criticism relevant to the study of autobiographical material, especially interdisciplinary perspectives such as pragmatics, borrowed from linguistics, and narratology, borrowed from literary criticism. The implications of these considerations for the writing of contemporary history are also discussed.
- Subjects
AUTOBIOGRAPHY; 20TH century history; 21ST century history; HISTORICAL source material; HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Methodology; INTERDISCIPLINARY approach to knowledge; PRAGMATICS; LANGUAGE &; history; NARRATIVE paradigm theory; LITERATURE &; history; HISTORIOGRAPHY of modern history; HISTORY &; biography
- Publication
BIOS: Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen, 2010, Vol 23, Issue 2, p170
- ISSN
0933-5315
- Publication type
Article