Talk:Biography of the Life of Manuel

Manuel or Manual?
Someone clear this up, please. Cbdorsett 30 June 2005 19:26 (UTC)


 * Manuel is correct. The other spelling was an error on my part, as i created the article from various aources. It has no basis in any of the sources. DES 30 June 2005 21:33 (UTC)

Redirect
Not sure why you removed the redirect dab. Since Jurgen still redirect to this article, and the other target still exists, the note is still needed. IPSOS (talk) 20:12, 27 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I removed it because Jurgen should have redirected to Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. And now it does. BPK 22:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Why not full title?
What reason do we have for calling it "The Biography of Manuel"? Did Cabell ever call it that? Teri00 (talk) 09:25, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

There is no redundancy in the title
From Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (1982, 1990) This overtitle of the 18 books contains no redundancy. "Life" is not the equivalency of "biography," but refers to the complex of vital forces which are manifest in and through Manuel, but are ultimately independent of him and endure after he passes from the scene. The same is true of Jurgen, another imposing "life," which is developed in volume six, the most widely read of all the fictions. "Biography" is a term Cabell employs in the conventional sense of a literary ordering of events and details. In other words, collectively the set of 18 reveals not only the landmarks, legends, and interpretations of Manuel's story, fascinating episodes in and of themselves, but goes beyond the racounter's art to uncover those consuming and creative forces which work through and upon the main character. Through a comprehensive grasp of these interwoven perspectives and impulses (the biography), a reader is to become eventually equipped to deal with the larger concept, the "life."

Teri00 (talk) 09:25, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Fantasy or Allegory?
As an avid fan of James Branch Cabell's works, I cannot understand why they are regularly classified as works of "fantasy", rather than as works of moral allegory, as I believe they truly are, in the medieval tradition to which they very blatantly refer. Any views?--Gfglegal (talk) 15:39, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Storisende Edition
Seeing Storisende Edition and Storisende edition (one word in italics) and Storisende Edition, I have revised the former pair to match the latter. --for uniformity without evidence or style guideline. --P64 (talk) 23:41, 26 December 2011 (UTC)