1st Edition
Diary Poetics Form and Style in Writers’ Diaries, 1915-1962
By Anna Jackson
Copyright 2010
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist’s true self. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia Plath, this book looks at how six very different professional writers have approached the diary form... Read more
Acknowledgments Introduction: Form and the Diary 1: Antonia White 2: John Cheever 3: Joe Orton 4: Katherine Mansfield 5: Virginia Woolf 6: Sylvia Plath 7: The Dash 8: Sentence Fragments: Diary Cows? 9: "I" And "You" Conclusion: "And coming here this morning..." Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Anna Jackson lectures in English at Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author, with Charles Ferrall, of Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950: The Age of Adolescence.
