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Aproximació a l'altre / An approach to the other: Biografies, semblances i retrats / Biographies, resemblances and portraits
Edited by Enric Balaguer, Maria Jesús Francés and Vicent Vidal
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 11] 2015
► pp. 49–58

Tracing the author or how theory constitutes an auto(bio)graph

This article revisits a series of concepts related to authorship and the existing metaphor composed by the body of a symbolic authorial figure and the corpus of the complete works of a certain writer in order to establish a criterion to try to follow the ‘body’-prints that an author may leave behind.
Published online: 02 December 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.11.07tor
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