From autobiography to philosophy: the concept of title in the book of S. T. Coleridge “Biographia Literaria”

A famous book «Biographia Literaria» written by an English romantic poet and philosopher S. T. Coleridge has been reviewed in this article as a unique example of an account about mental life and development of a creative personality. The title and the genre of this autobiographical book are in the focus of the researcher's attention. Particularly the article refers to the theory of cultural transmission in literature and deals with the problem of the relation between the title, the genre as well as the reflection of the conceptual idea in this autobiographical book.