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  • Review of Xavier Herbert: A Biography, Eleanor Dark: A Writer's Life and The Queen of Bohemia: The Autobiography of Dulcie Deamer: Being 'The Golden Decade' (Book reveiw)

    Author(s)
    Buckridge, Pat
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Buckridge, Pat J.
    Year published
    1999
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    Abstract
    Biographies of writers have maintained their popularity for many years, both here and overseas, a fact sometimes attributed to the chance they give 'busy people' to become acquainted with an author's work without having to read it. The imputation is probably unjust: many people are driven to read or reread an author's works as a direct consequence of reading a good biography. It is true, though, that biographies of writers seem to possess a range of what might be called secondary functions: they can provide not only conveniently digested samplings of the writers' work, but also serviceable frameworks for cultural historiography ...
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    Biographies of writers have maintained their popularity for many years, both here and overseas, a fact sometimes attributed to the chance they give 'busy people' to become acquainted with an author's work without having to read it. The imputation is probably unjust: many people are driven to read or reread an author's works as a direct consequence of reading a good biography. It is true, though, that biographies of writers seem to possess a range of what might be called secondary functions: they can provide not only conveniently digested samplings of the writers' work, but also serviceable frameworks for cultural historiography and for literary history and criticism.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Literary Studies
    Volume
    19
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    https://www.australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/review-by-patrick-buckridge
    Subject
    Literary Studies
    Historical Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/179791
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