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Novick, who used his own research as well as the material gathered by the previous biographers, has produced an incredibly well-documented book, with 75 pages of endnotes. In his quest for detail, the author has even gone so far as to inquire of Dr. Peter F. Stevens, curator of...
THE first chapter, a masterful exploration of style and autobiography, is so comprehensive it could stand on its own. From Walt Whitman's "The Song of Myself," to the autobiography of a performance artist, circa 1980, Leibowitz calls on his encyclopedic knowledge of the literature of personal history to expand...
IF style is Leibowitz's rationale for this book, then it seems an unfortunate consequence the turgid, academic prose he has chosen to express his own. Between the pages of plot summary, the endless intellectual bragging and the almost repetitive invocations of some nebulous American national "identity," Fabricating Lives gets...
3) Women are instruments of male sexuality. (The above are corollaries of this fundamental assumption.) Women who do not compliantly offer up their bodies to the male sexual appetite are "frigid." BUT, it is important that sex be for his satisfaction only. Women who control and enjoy their own sexuality...
But he added that faculty members tend to focus closely on their own courses and pay less attention to the breadth of department offerings.