Figura, Persona, Dynamis: Autobiography and Change

Abstract

As a "text" of a "life," autobiography is about change, presenting the "before" and "after" of individuals who have undergone transformations of some kind. Traditional approaches to the genre have focused on other aspects and have favored or ignored one or another of autobiography's essential elements in serving their critical purposes. This approach attempts to be comprehensive in that it deals both with how autobiography constitutes its meaning and what this constitution contributes to the discourse. It examines the rhetoric of autobiography to discover the subject (persona), ground (figura), and motive (dynamis) of the transformation.

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