Histories of autobiographical writing traditionally point to a few key works to describe the emergence of a particular kind of narrative in which the author describes their own life, usually in terms of some idea of development – works like Augustine’s
As so often, it seems, the religious thinkers got there first: there's a long tradition of the mystical "via negativa", a.k.a. apophatic or negative theology i.e. defining the Divine by what it is not (pretty much anything you can think of, I'd have thought).
"Like an intaglio print" seems an odd comparison: perhaps "like an intaglio plate"?
As so often, it seems, the religious thinkers got there first: there's a long tradition of the mystical "via negativa", a.k.a. apophatic or negative theology i.e. defining the Divine by what it is not (pretty much anything you can think of, I'd have thought).
"Like an intaglio print" seems an odd comparison: perhaps "like an intaglio plate"?
Mike