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Brennen says if he had more time, he would have spent it on Edward Said's letters, where he communicated with great intellectuals

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The struggle of tracking people down all over the world and the rush to get the work done before those few trusted people die

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Edward Said trusted few people in his life. He shared very little with very few, according to Brennan

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The challenge while interviewing people is having them talk about themselves more than about the subject and having to redirect them to stay on track

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A chronological biography was a better choice so the reader knows when the subject learns something and how it impacts life later

"how chance meets choice"

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Brennan mentions the term Parataxis, the juxtaposition of events, statements, quotations, and descriptions without explicit causal connections where adjacency implies a connection filled in by the reader.

"I didn’t understand it until I wrote the biography"

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Brennan looked for information in FBI documents, old letters, and notes to fill in the gaps about children, marriage, and Said's troubled father.

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Brennan explains that Affect Theory is the view that feelings, prior to and divorced from thinking, have certain cognitive and ethical advantages over thought itself

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Brennan says that Auto Theory is the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography

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According to Brennan, Life Writing comes in many forms which include biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, diaries, and many more

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This is the 18th Edward Said Memorial Lecture of the series of annul lectures. The speakers have included Cornel West, Judith Butler, Marina Warner, Robert Young, Noam Chomsky and many others.

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#HappeningNow Timothy Brennan, a cultural theorist and professor of literature, unravels the methods he used to write Edward Said's biography at AUC Oriental Hall and broadcasted through Livestream.

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#BeforeTheFlood was suppose to be a wake up call to us all but instead people continue to ignore the growing threat of climate change. Be encouraged to take action to save our plant from further harm.
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@Caravan_AUC’s social media coverage of Noam Chomsky’s live lecture on Global Realignments and the Prospects for a Livable World has ended.

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If you want to attend Noam Chomsky’s live lecture that’s #HappeningNow, register through @AUC Connect to listen about Global Realignments and the Prospects for a Livable World