{"id":1799,"date":"2021-09-15T20:47:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2022-02-01T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:04:12","slug":"page-breaks-22-september-the-slippery-art-of-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2021\/09\/15\/page-breaks-22-september-the-slippery-art-of-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks &#8211; 22 September &#8211; The Slippery Art of Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3c\/Plutarchs_Lives_Vol_the_Third_1727.jpg\/520px-Plutarchs_Lives_Vol_the_Third_1727.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Our next Page Breaks session will be on 22 September at 1 pm, and will consider Craig&#8217;s Brown&#8217;s essay on the peculiarities of biography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;We live in the present, but we think in the past and in the present and in the future, and often all at the same time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Text (Reading)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Craig Brown, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/slippery-art-of-biography-essay-craig-brown\/\">Nothing is Real: The Slippery Art of Biography<\/a>&#8216; (via <em>The TLS<\/em>)<ul><li>Trigger warning: this piece briefly references victims of Auschwitz.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Time&#8221; and &#8220;Place&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Wed 22 September, 1 pm<\/li><li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/4690415237\">Link<\/a>&nbsp;(Password: pagebreaks)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking forward to seeing you all again soon! This event is run by Dorothy Butchard and Toria Johnson (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk and t.johnson@bham.ac.uk). Please email us if you have any questions, but you&#8217;re welcome to just turn up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Page Breaks is a (very) informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. All welcome!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next Page Breaks session will be on 22 September at 1 pm, and will consider Craig&#8217;s Brown&#8217;s essay on the peculiarities of biography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-lit","category-page-breaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}