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Mr. Sweetman's biography doesn't try to compete with Mr. Hulsker's in matters of scholarship (it suffers for lack of footnotes).
Considered a masterpiece by many critics, it was also criticized by academics for its lack of footnotes and other scholarly conventions.
But readers who don't already have these words memorized are more likely to be bothered by the lack of footnotes; where the editors of the Norton anthologies, those onionskin behemoths, love to explain and overexplain obscure terms and references, Bradley and DuBois provide readers with nothing more than brief introductions.
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Often it's to reduce a sense of risk or foolishness, avoiding a glaring mismatch, but it's also to footnote an immediate lack of attraction.
Lots and lots of footnotes.
Of course, scholarly books are still full of footnotes.
Instead of footnotes, there is a section called "further reading".
Mr. Liebling's defense appears in the form of footnotes.
Yes, that's a lot of footnotes and "yes, buts".
The Night Porter makes use of footnotes.
His 600 interviews are noted in 97 pages of footnotes.
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