Charles Lock
Educated at Oxford (MA and D.Phil. 1982), taught at Hoegskolan i Karlstad (Sweden) 1980-82, subsequently at the University of Toronto. Since 1996 Professor of English Literature at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Works on 19th and 20th century literature, notably Thomas Hardy and John Cowper Powys, with extensive interests in poetry, from medieval to contemporary; literary theory, notably Bakhtin and Jakobson; visual semiotics and theories of perspective; American literature; postcolonial and migration literature.
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As Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoevsky continues its magisterial progress, it meets the problem that all such serial biographies are likely to encounter. As the subject grows old, so he or she becomes subject to fame. Letters of slight importance are kept by their recipients, chance remarks are recorded, friends of the famous person tell their anecdotes and write their memoirs.
As Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoevsky continues its magisterial progress, it meets the problem that all such serial biographies are likely to encounter. As the subject grows old, so he or she becomes subject to fame. Letters of slight importance are kept by their recipients, chance remarks are recorded, friends of the famous person tell their anecdotes and write their memoirs.