Description
German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey noted the educational value of [auto]biographical writing as a means of understanding life, bound up in hermeneutic knowing: an intuitive route to understanding based on our situated human-ness, rather than on knowledge based on certainty or probability (Friesen, 2020). Certainly, Dilthey was not the first to note this enduring pedagogical quality of the autobiography as, in the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin had already offered his autobiography as a model of a life “fit to be imitated” (cited in Jacobson, 2018). Although mimetic modelling and hermeneutic knowing cannot be easily reconciled, both rely on a degree of introspection and introjection; so, too, does fan fiction.Fan fiction is closely linked to the genre of biographical writing. Amateur writers feel strongly linked to already established characters, placing them into new situations and, via their own understanding of the world, they write about the characters’ lives, loves and experiences in a speculative way
| Period | 26 Jun 2024 → 28 Jun 2024 |
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| Event title | EAPRIL SIG Writing |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Paris, FranceShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |