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Egoless autofiction or the self-erasing memoir: Nan Shepherd’s ‘The Living Mountain’

Posted on 16/03/2025 by alasdairflett

In The Living Mountain Nan Shepherd inverts her eye, but it’s not her mind we see but Mind itself. It is a theory of the mind from a particular mind mode. Mind minus ident and the idem from the idiosyncratic. … Continue reading →

Posted in Review | Tagged autofiction, being, book-review, books, Cairngorms, eros, gender, hiking, Literature, memoir, Nan Shepherd, nature, perception, philosophy, pilgrimage, politics, Review, Scotland, Second World War, senses, sincerity, The Living Mountain, walking, writing | Leave a comment

“As a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire”

Posted on 26/06/2020 by alasdairflett

The title quote is taken from Arnold Bennett’s Old Wives’ Tale, an epic novel of 1908 whose essence can be distilled as the disastrous attempt of a lower middle class family to hold onto former Victorian glories while the structures … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, Politics | Tagged Arnold Bennett, class, Damian Barr, Deborah Orr, Edwardian literature, Hannah Arendt, Margaret Thatcher, memoir, Motherwell, Orkney, Scottish | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: memoir

Egoless autofiction or the self-erasing memoir: Nan Shepherd’s ‘The Living Mountain’

“As a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire”

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