Autobiographical Traditions in Egodocuments

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon is Professor of Cultural History and Chair of the Center for Microhistorical Research at University of Iceland, Iceland. He has written 28 published books, including Archive, Slow Ideology and Egodocuments as Microhistorical Autobiography: Potential History (2021) and Emotional Experience and Microhistory (2020). He is also co-editor, with István M. Szijártó, of the Microhistories book series.

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Acknowledgements

Part I – Introduction: Culture and Society

Part II – Historiography and Theoretical Framework
1 . The Biographical Tradition and the Icelandic School of Microhistory
2. Egodocuments in the Twentieth Century
3. The Autobiographical Expression
4. The Formation of the Self

Part III – The Autobiography and Life
5. Icelandic Egodocuments
6. Egodocuments and the Environment
7. The Autobiography and the Life Course

Part IV – Conclusion: Face 2 Face with the General Public

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