“Male life” as a Cultural Project Represented in Literary and “Naïve” Autobiographies

Abstract

Represents the study based on the use of methods of corpus linguistics and semiotic analysis. The literary and naive autobiographies of men are compared. It is argued that the autobiographies of writers, as well as those of ordinary men are being constructed within the boundaries of the “male culture” patterns regardless of abilities and literary experiences of the autobiographies’ authors. If a man brought up in an orphanage, his autobiography reproduces a distorted code of the “male culture”. This fact may be explained by the change in the gender culture content within the closed social groups and violation of mediation in the reproduction of gender culture in deprivation conditions.