Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:02:45 -0600 From: Andrew Herman <ah7301r-AT-ACAD.DRAKE.EDU> Subject: Re: Foucault and ethnography Samuel Lawrence Binkley wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 10, 1996 5:53:39 PM at spiderwoman wrote: > > >Have you come across "SAINT FOUCAULT: Towards a Gay Hagiography" by David > > >M. Halperin (1995) Oxford University Press? > > > > > interesting. what on earth is a Hagiography? Sam- A hagiography is a biography that is idealized treatment of the subjec that is almost mythical. It derives from the Greek, "Hagios", or sacred or holy. The LIVES OF THE SAINTS is a classic (though not classical) example of a hagiography. Andrew Herman ------------------
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