Methis 5-6 (Spring-autumn 2010)

English summaries translated by: Krista Mits, Leena Kurvet-Käosaar, Blake Royer

Proofs: Eda-Kai Simmermann, Marju Mikkel, Maarja Hollo 

CONTENTS

Marin Laak - Foreword

Leena Kurvet-Käosaar - In a Maze of Concepts: From Autobiography to Life Writing

ARTICLES

1. Rutt Hinrikus – The development of Estonian autobiographical writing from the 19th

century to the Second World War

 2. Tiina Ann Kirss – ”The Windhover in Youth and Age”: August Kitzberg and the   Founding Texts of Estonian Autobiography

 3. Eve Annuk –  Autobiography as the Discourse of „Truth”: Lilli Suburg’s Minu saatusega võitluskäik

 4. Ave Mattheus – Child(hood) in 19th century Estonia: a Study of Autobiographical Texts

 5. Maris Saagpakk –  Ambivalence in Baltic German Women’s Autobiographical Writing

 6. Maarja Hollo –  From Our Island to Mnemosyne. The Island as an Autobiographical Figure in Bernard Kangro’s work

 7. Aija Sakova –  The Writer’s Duty to Suffer in Order to See and Understand:

The Literary Vision of Ene Mihkelson and Ingeborg Bachmann

 8. Aare Pilv –  On Self-Writing

 9. Piret Kruuspere – Life Narratives and Estonian Theatre: The Productions of Merle Karusoo

 10. Anneli Saro –  Postdramatic Theatre and Autobiographical Performance

in Its Social Context

 11. Tiiu Jaago –  Generic Status of Texts Created in the Process of Collecting Memories

 12. Anna Verschik – Possibilities of Research on Linguistic Biographies: Dagmar Normet, a Multilingual Childhood in Estonia

ARCHIVAL FIND

        Gustav Malts – A (Hi)story of Maltsvet's Religion and His Journey to the Crimea

        Rutt Hinrikus –  On the Manuscript of Gustav Malts

MEDIATION OF THEORY

        Philippe Lejeune –  Le Pacte Autobiographique

        Leena Kurvet-Käosaar –  Foreword to the translation