Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 565.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:26:54 +0000
From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell)
Subject: biographastry
I am looking for contemporary critical literature on the subject of
biography-making. I am not looking for advice on how to write a good one,
but rather for critical reflection on the propensity for making them, the
intellectual issues raised, the narratological patterns and history. What
I find is a large literature that rather enjoys biographies and likes
thinking about them and thinks they are swell: I find very little from
people who are, as I am, made very nervous by them and wish to understand
better why they are so popular and what that popularity means for our
knowledge of the past.
Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
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