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

  • Meri Torras
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Abstract

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.

Abstract

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.

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