In literature, an autobiographical form in which a defense is the framework for discussion of the author's personal beliefs.
Examples include Plato's Apology (4th century &BC;), in which Socrates answers his accusers by giving a history of his life and moral commitment, and John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864), an examination of the principles that inspired his conversion to Roman Catholicism.
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