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Autobiography, as a literary narrative, is located within the intersection zonebetween history and fiction. Autobiography is close to historiography due to itsreference to an actual past, and it is also close to fiction due to its use of narrativestrategies while shaping the past in retrospect. This literary genre, which presents a♠ Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümünde katılmış olduğum Tarih FelsefesiSorunları başlıklı lisansüstü dersindeki Ricoeur etüdleri bu çalışmanın şekillenmesindebana ilham vermiştir. Bundan ötürü öğretim üyesi Prof. Dr. Kubilay Aysevener’eteşekkürlerimi sunarım.sort of transitivity between history and fiction, structures authentic time experiencewithin the narrative form, and it subjects lived time to the formative principle ofnarrative. Paul Ricoeur’s voluminous work, titled Time and Narrative, is mainlyconcerned with the principle that narratives configure individual and collectiveexperience temporally. In this work he scrutinizes the parallelisms betweenhistoriography and fiction on the one hand; and examines the differences between thesetwo narrative forms as to the procedures of configuring time within the framework ofphilosophy and narratology on the other. Ricoeur evaluates narrative structure in termsof plot, mimesis and re-figuration of authentic experience so as to investigatetemporality in historical and fictional texts. This study principally claims that Ricoeur’sremarks in his work concerning the temporal functions of narratives in both history andfiction also hold true for autobiographical narratives. Accordingly, autobiographygrants individuals the power to interpret past actions and to form their selfhooddepending on the principles that human actions take place in time and that narrativeshave the potential to re-structure time.

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