Recognizing the Life-Text
Towards a Poetics of Biography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5046804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William H Epstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 283-306 |
| Publication date | 1983-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0714 |
| OpenAlex | W2067597420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
By exploring contemporary generic relationships between the 'natural,' the 'cultural,' and the 'narratable' as an already inscribed narrative scheme (a generic frame ), we can project an approach to the poetics of biography. This generic frame employs these relationships as an elusive attempt to "recognize the life-text" as the moment of cultural transformation when a natural life become a narratable text, when a narrated event becomes a biographical fact
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| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 1987 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |