Dear Colleagues,
I note Boris Berenzon Gorn's recent e-mail on biography & history. I am
also working on comparing the concerns of the biographer with those of the
historian. I would welcome any thoughts on how both forms can be related and
what each form can learn from the other. I work from the assumption that
both history and biography are essentially literary and cultural practices.
This does, of course, raise the significant issue of the epistemological
status pf history.
Best wishes
Alun Munslow
Professor of History & Historical Theory
UK Editor: Rethinking History: The Journal of
Theory & Practice (Routledge)
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