TRANSFORMATION OF THE PARADIGM OF WRITING BIOGRAPHIES: A META-CRITICAL SYNTHESIS OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES

This article presents a meta-critical synthesis of the paradigm shifts in life writing—encompassing both biography and autobiography—as documented in thirteen (13) articles published in the journal Biography between 1972 and 1979. Through thematic analysis assisted by artificial intelligence technology (Google Notebook LM), subsequently validated through manual review, this study identifies four main thematic clusters: first, the tension between scientific documentation and narrative imagination