Autobiography : Nature and History
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Aesthetic, Essence, Depict, Account, Distortion, Annotation, Eminent, Deliberation, Spectacular, Fruitage, Blog, Logging, HumdrumAbstract
This paper contains the nature of autobiography and its elements. The fervor of autobiography is always self-centered true story of the author. The sense of autobiography from the ancient to middle time was mixed with the writing of systematic events which got stirred in Renaissance period in the West. Later on, the course of intimate writing about one self started with the formal writing. The paper deals with the nature of autobiography which includes formal, informal, thematic, religious, fictitious, intellectual etc. and historical development of autobiographical writing in English. It has been presented here with the Indian style and current trend in autobiography writing in English by Indians eminent authors.
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