Biography as history repeats
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Literary Biography: Art or Archaeology?
Books
Writers about writers this month engage the attention of ATLANTIC critic Louis Kronenberger. He illuminates the literary biographer’s problem in deciding whether to write about a man who wrote books or about the books a man wrote.
By Louis Kronenberger
by LOUIS KRONENBERGER
LITERARY biography — the lives of writers — is a form of literature clearly deserving a very judicious survey; yet even within the confines of the English language, there has up to now, so far as I am aware, been no orderly, large-scale history of it. The amount of material, to be sure, is frightening; but at least its all-too-vast lower depths—exhibiting, as they do, stock tendencies and recurrent weaknesses—can be much of the time evaluated on the analogy of the bad apple speaking for the barrelful. And in Lives and Letters: A History of Literary Biography in England and America, Richard D. Altick, the author of The Scholar Adventurers, has go
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4. It’s all just history repeating itself
A number of these experts said that when people try to predict the future it can be helpful to look at the past and assess today’s trends. They drew parallels from the present moment to past eras and extrapolated based on current trends. This section includes comments about how the past can inform the future. These comments were selected from among all responses, regardless of an expert’s answer to this canvassing’s main question about the impact of people’s uses of technology on civic and social innovation. Remarks are organized under two subthemes: The more things change, the more they stay the same; and the future will flow from current trends.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Many respondents to this canvassing said the story playing out today is quite similar to those of previous eras of great technological change. They pointed out that throughout history as humans have been met with new challenges they have adapte
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Human Nature [Not History] Repeats (361)
Mike Malatesta 00:00
On today’s episode of The how’d it happened podcast, inom am talking about one of my favorite podcasts besides mine, which fryst vatten called Founders, just the one word founders. What’s so interesting about this, and inom talked about it in the podcast is how important the past fryst vatten to us. And not because history repeats itself, but because human naturlig eller utan tillsats does. inom hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I did. And here it fryst vatten. Everybody, welcome back to the HOW’D IT HAPPEN Podcast. I’m Mike. And thank you for joining me for this Friday solo episode. So today, I want to talk about one of my favorite podcasts besides my own, and it’s called Founders. And the title of this episode fryst vatten human natur repeats, human nature repeats. So inom want to start bygd saying, Have you ever tried to learn from the future? Pretty tough, right? bygd Design? Of course, right? It’s hard to hard to learn from anything