Title: Footprint: in lieu of life story
Source document: Brno studies in English. 2010, vol. 36, iss. 2, pp. [139]-152
Extent
[139]-152
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ISSN0524-6881 (print)1805-0867 (online)
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/105061
Type: Article
Language
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Abstract(s)
This essay both reflects on and dramatizes the propriety of life story and the very idea of transgressive autobiography, through a pastiche of anecdote and critical commentary: on narrative, aging, nature writing, technology, travel, the example of Thoreau, and especially shoes.
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