ABSTRACT
This conclusion aims not at concluding but at persuading readers to use this book as the beginning of, hopefully, a fruitful conversation. I am aware that some of the ideas and suggestions presented in this book go against the grain (if there is such a thing as the grain in literary theory), or, more exactly, beyond what is traditionally considered as autobiography studies, or even literary studies. But this has been done before by much more prestigious authors who, I suppose, felt that the analytic frameworks at their disposal were not adapted to embrace the complexity of the literary phenomena they focused on. I could not agree more with Suzanne Keen when she writes that “[a]s literary scholars with interests in empirical research, we have a role to play in engaging in the public discussion of scientific findings about literature and reading” (Keen, 2016: 110). And this implies using different frameworks.
