{"id":2759,"date":"2015-08-17T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T00:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:52:21","slug":"pvc-bibliographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2015\/08\/17\/pvc-bibliographies\/","title":{"rendered":"PvC Bibliographies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve begun expanding the Resources and Bibliography<\/a> sub-page to my Provisional Conclusions, this past week, and have discovered how compiling such a bibliography helps to focus my thoughts about what books, out of my sizable library, are most relevant to my ongoing project. (Note that in this bibliography there are a few titles I have not actually read yet, but intend to, before drawing any conclusions.)<\/p>\n

On the same note, Sunday, yesterday, while busy with family matters, I realized I needed to re-examine and sort my shelves of sf\/f-related nonfiction. (There’s a certain benefit in moving the focus of one’s daily activities from the matter at hand; somehow the mind processes issues in the background and presents conclusions one might not have reached deliberately; which is why weekends mostly away from my desk and computer can often result in conceptual progress (as well as, of course, providing attendant worthwhile virtues.) There is a section of my library, occupying not quite two full bookcases, of some — let me pause to do a typical shelf count and multiplication — 500 volumes ranging from author biographies and studies, to encyclopedia, to histories of sf\/f\/h, to books about how write sf\/f\/h, to collections of reviews (Blish, Knight, Clute, Wolfe), to bibliographic compilations and reading guides, to — finally, what I think I’m most interested in currently — general studies about the meaning and intent of the literary forms of sf\/f\/h. It’s these last, currently, that I find most relevant to my exploration and expansion of my Provisional Conclusions<\/a>. Though I think that, unlike the nonfiction references on the Resources & Bibliography page, I will not post partial in-work bibliographies of SF\/F\/H fiction works, and how they relate\/illustrate\/inform<\/i> those PvCs. That will be a slow and steady long-range project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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