Contact Admin. Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. Log In Sign Up. Im Som- mer fand der zweite Teil des Projekts statt. Der besondere Dank geht an alle an dem Projekt mitwir- kenden Teilnehmer. Meanwhile, owing to its specific nature as well as the historical period under examination, this research has generated various terminological and methodological sug- gestions.
The classic definition of an ego-document offered by Jacob Presser has been modified. Let us recall that, according to Presser, ego- documents are texts in which the author reveals his feelings and his private life. Thus, they are documents in which the author intentionally or unintentionally reveals his self1. Some problems have arisen while defining and analysing sources of an autobiographical nature resulting from difficulties in translating terms from one language to another.
Presser, , p. Historians of literature tend to understand this category as a literary genre which has its own boundaries and characteristic features. Attempts to categorize historical sources as a literary genre are not always successful. In the case of France, livres de raison, correspond in one point only to the schema of an autobiography — in the identity of the writer and the narrator of a document3.
In a dissertation by Ralf Wuthenow, examples of texts which differed from classic autobiographies were collected in a separate chapter and treated as special cases5. Obviously, such a rigorous treatment of the definition of the literary genre led to depreciating sources which did not fit the schema. Such sources were treated as just a stage on the way to reaching a mature liter- ary genre. For historians, autobiographical writing goes beyond the field of a literary genre which, however, does not make it free from misunder- standings and differing interpretations.
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