Reading Dutch
A Review in Three Parts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15086153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Minsoo Kang (0000-0002-9225-1004, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 407-412 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rethinking History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-2529 • E-ISSN: 1470-1154 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/136425200457074 |
| OpenAlex | W1993888807 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
A meditation on Dutch by Edmund Morris, the controversial memoir-biography of Ronald Reagan, that uses some of the experimental techniques that appear in the book. The first part is the description of a scene, in screenplay form, in which I have a conversation with a friend about the book; the second, a fictional 'memoir' by an invented acquaintance of Edmund Morris; and the third, a fictional interview with the author.In the last part, I find the experiments used in the book effective in giving an intimate perspective of the book's subject, but think it problematic that a book that purports to be a biography fail to provide that reader a way of distinguishing fact rom fiction. A solution might have been for Morris to declare a whole new genre of writing - the factitional narrative
Art · Art history · Biography · Close reading · Conversation · Linguistics · Literature · Meditation · Memoir · Narrative · Theology · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |