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Diary Poetics - Form and Style in Writers' Diaries, 1915-1962 (Paperback)
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Diary Poetics - Form and Style in Writers' Diaries, 1915-1962 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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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 with its particular demands and literary potential. As a
sequence of separate entries the diary is made up of both gaps and
continuities, and the different ways diarists negotiate these
aspects of the diary form has radical effects on how their diaries
represent both the world and the biographical self. The different
published editions of the diaries by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia
Woolf and Sylvia Plath show how editorial decisions can construct
sometimes startlingly different biographical portraits. Yet all
diaries are constructed, and all diary constructions depend on how
the writer works with the diary form.
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