Autobiographical narrative and the poetry of the sensitive through the test of cognition

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2025..71-83

Keywords:

cognition, autobiographical memory, novel, poetry, Bonnot

Abstract

This study challenges the traditional definition of autobiography (cf. Lejeune) and proposes a cognitive approach to the constitution of authors’ autobiographical memory, following the model of Martin Conway et al. S. Freyermuth has chosen to analyse some works by Nan Aurousseau and Jean Rouaud, on the novelistic side, and by Simon-Gabriel Bonnot, on the poetic side, in order to highlight the effectiveness of questioning the traces of autobiographical memory in texts, thus rejecting the necessity of a prior adherence to the autobiographical pact.

Author Biography

  • Sylvie Freyermuth, University of Luxembourg

    Sylvie Freyermuth is Professor Emeritus of French Language and Literature at the University of Luxembourg, having spent most of her career in France. A specialist in the study of the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century, she is particularly interested in how social, political and economic issues are reflected in literature. She is currently working, from a cognitive perspective, on the constitution of autobiographical memory in various contemporary authors, including the poet Simon-Gabriel Bonnot.

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2025-10-14

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Vol. 11 (2025)

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I. Dialogues, continuité, ouverture: le cas des littératures romanes

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Autobiographical narrative and the poetry of the sensitive through the test of cognition. (2025). Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum, 11, 71-83. https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2025..71-83