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Interpretive Biography
Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. They require no less than organizing into text the chaos of human existence. In Interpretive Biography Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences and humanities with one of the newest. Bringing in elements of postmodernism and interpretive social science, he reexamines the biographical and autobiographical genres. In addition, the book outlines a new way in which biographies should be conceptualized and shaped.
96 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1989
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July 29, 2011
Denzin, who has written numerous interesting and lucid method books, manages to be frustratingly muddled and unfocused in this one. I was intrigued by the topic and the author, but it was mostly a disappointing read. Biography is a social construction? I wouldn't have needed (even) 90 pages to know that. I guess that's what you get with the kind of postmodern approach Denzin here advocates...
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