%0 Journal Article %T ¡°A word-web woven¡±: Autobiography in Old English Poetry %A Graham HOLDERNESS %J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone %D 2007 %I %R 10.4000/erea.178 %X A retrospective prose narrative produced by a real person concerning his own existence, focusing on the individual life, in particular on the development of his personality. (Lejeune 193)Today Philippe Lejeune's concise definition of ¡°autobiography¡± raises many problems of ontology, psychology and gender. Terms such as ¡°real person¡±, ¡°own existence¡±, ¡°development of (¡­) personality¡± could no longer be so innocently employed. Nor would it be legitimate to imply, if only grammatically, that aut... %U http://erea.revues.org/178