Biography and History: The Problem of Correlation and Balance
- Authors: Polyakov AN1
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Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
- Issue: No 2 (2013)
- Pages: 39-44
- Section: ARTICLES
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/4435
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Abstract
The article examines the problem of the correlation between historic and biographic genres by contrasting what historians, biographers, and philosophers have said on the matter. In doing so, the article raises the question: What does Plutarch mean when he states: “We do not write history, but life histories”?