Auctorialitatea în memorialistică
Rezumat
Authorship and Memoir
Abstract: This paper examines the mechanics of authorship in the discursive context of memoir by analyzing the paradoxical and sometimes self-defeating generic traits of this specific subtype of autobiographical writing (or life-writing) and the way in which experts might approach the study of the author function by transgressing the limits of various disciplines, from narratology to rhetoric and sociology. Consequently, the paper will also be arguing that, alongside ethos or voice, authorial images and postures, for instance, represent some of the central epistemological instruments used in the analysis of the relationship between writer and memoir, in the light of poststructuralist critique and the problematization of the subject and author which remains doubly challenging within the limits of self-representation, especially in the wake of the hermeneutics of suspicion.
Keywords: authorship, memoir, author, writer, ethos, posture, autobiography, life-writing, temporality, the death and return of the author.
Citation suggestion: Ciorogar, Alex. “Auctorialitatea în memorialistică”. Transilvania, no. 10 (2025): 28-38.
https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2025.10.04.
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