Author, Audience, and Autobiography: A Narratological Analysis of Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War
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In this article, I argue that although the concept of “author” has been extremely troubled and difficult to sustain in some areas of reading, the Barthesian argument more often obscures than clarifies in other areas of communication and particularly so in autobiographical genres. As a subject to be discussed, I choose Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War, where the concept of author becomes illustrative in understanding the arguably distinctive structure of autobiography in terms of, first, narrative levels and, secondly, the pragmatic relationship between textual and paratextual properties.
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In this article, I argue that although the concept of “author” has been extremely troubled and difficult to sustain in some areas of reading, the Barthesian argument more often obscures than clarifies in other areas of communication and particularly so in autobiographical genres. As a subject to be discussed, I choose Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War, where the concept of author becomes illustrative in understanding the arguably distinctive structure of autobiography in terms of, first, narrative levels and, secondly, the pragmatic relationship between textual and paratextual properties.
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- Caputo, Philip, "A Rumor of War" (1977), New York: Ballantine Books
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