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Name: Problem of Plot in the Documentary, Biographical and Autodocumentary Prose

Authors: Matveeva Yu. V.

In the section Theory and Typology Plot

Abstract: In the example of a large body of biographical documentaries and autodokumentaries texts of Russian foreign we attempt to examine the theoretical and methodological question about the importance of the story as a special mechanism for the creation and perception documental works. Different genres of documental prose are considered (biographies, memoirs, portraits, autobiographies, letters, diaries) in terms of their narrative organization. For such genres as biographies, autobiographies, memoirs we concludes about fruitfulness of so-called «parsing» (G. O. Vinokur) plot, allowing to build human biography not chronological, but the philosophical and psychological way. In relation to the diaries, letters, notebooks a special type of plot is released – receptive plot, generated, on the one hand, by extra-literary reality, and on the other hand – reconstituted and existing during the readership reception.

Keywords: documentary and autodocument literature, plot, emigre literature, biography, autobiography, letters, diaries, readers reception.

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