Male life in literary and ‘naive’ autobiographies

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ID12978005
AuthorsН К Радина (0000-0001-8336-1044, National Research University Higher School of Economics, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume10
Issue1
Pages38-53
Publication date2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRussian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1940-9427 • E-ISSN: 1940-9419
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19409419.2017.1420488
OpenAlexW2793081726
LanguageEN
References cited14

This study based on the use of methods of corpus linguistics compares literary and ‘naive autobiographies’ of men and women. The empirical material of this research is represented by texts of autobiographies of men from provincial Russia, the corpus of ‘naive’ male autobiographies comprises 36 interviews (28,335 word usages). For the comparative analysis 46 female autobiographies have been used (the total corpus contains 48,530 word usages) dwelling in the countryside and provincial towns as well. The other group of materials includes 20 ‘literary autobiographies’ of writers (the corpus of literary male autobiographies contains 27,241 word usages). It was found that the autobiographies of writers, as well as the autobiographies of ‘ordinary males’, are being constructed by the authors within the boundaries of the ‘male culture’ rules regardless of abilities and literary experiences

Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Psychology

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