http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/sublime-inauthenticity Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:50:24 -0400 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:50:24 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/31/sublime-inauthenticity-how-critical-is-truth-in-autobiography By Scott Berghegger - In the autobiography, time and history, at first glance, seem paramount. After all, autobiography is the account of the things that have happened in a person’s life, selected and made ready for public consumption, usually written in the first person. However, the understanding of autobiographical narratives can vary from story to story. Is the purpose of the autobiography to deduce truth from the myriad of subjective experiences surrounding history? Is it a self-searching exercise taken on by the most poetic and self-indulgent among us? How critical is memory, that fragile function of the... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:58 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/31/sublime-inauthenticity-how-critical-is-truth-in-autobiography