Footprint: in lieu of life story

Vol.36,No.2(2010)

Randall Roorda

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/105061

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Abstract
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.

Keywords:
autobiography; narrative; Henry David Thoreau

Pages:
139–152
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