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The Diary : The Epic of Everyday Life.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (492 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253046963
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The DiaryDDC classification:
  • 808.06691999999998
LOC classification:
  • PN4390 .D537 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-Amos -- Part I. Diary Theories -- 1. The Practice of Writing a Diary / Philippe Lejeune and Catherine Bogaert, translated from French by Dagmara Meijers-Troller -- 2. Feminist Interpretations of the Diary / Kathryn Carter -- 3. The Diary among Other Forms of Life Writing / Julie Rak -- Part II. The Creation of a Diary Canon -- 4. British Diary Canon Formation / Dan Doll -- 5. The Diary in France and French-Speaking Countries / Michel Braud, translated from French by Dagmara Meijers-Troller -- 6. The American Diary Canon / Steven E. Kagle -- 7. Personal Writings and the Quest for National Identity in Brazil / Sergio da Silva Barcellos -- Part III. The Transformation of the Manuscript -- 8. The Complicated Publication History of the Diaries of Anne Frank / Suzanne L. Bunkers -- 9. Digitized Diary Archives / Desirée Henderson -- Part IV. The Travel Diary -- 10. British and North American Travel Writing and the Diary / Tim Youngs -- 11. Travel Diaries in Australia / Agnieszka Sobocinska -- 12. Travel Diaries in Imperial China / James M. Hargett -- Part V. The Private Diary -- 13. The Contemporary Personal Diary in France / Françoise Simonet-Tenant, translated from French by Dagmara Meijers-Troller -- 14. Writing the Self, Writing History in Palestine / Kimberly Katz -- 15. Sharing Secrets in Nineteenth-Century America / Marilyn Ferris Motz -- 16. The Literary Author as Diarist / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Part VI. The Diary in Political Conflict -- 17. The American Civil War: Confederate Women's Diaries / Kimberly Harrison -- 18. The Archive as a Diary of Resistance: Hendrik Witbooi, Nama Revolutionary, 1884-1905 / Elizabeth R. Baer -- 19. Diary and Narrative: French Soldiers and World War I / Leonard V. Smith.
20. The Stalin-Era Diary / Jochen Hellbeck -- 21. On Holocaust Diaries / Batsheva Ben-Amos -- 22. Estonian Women's Deportation Diaries / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar -- Part VII. Online Diaries -- 23. From Puritans to Fitbit: Self-Improvement, Self-Tracking, and How to Keep a Diary / Kylie Cardell -- 24. Online Diaries and Blogs / Jill Walker Rettberg -- 25. A Journey through Two Decades of Online Diary Community / Lena Buford -- 26. GeoCities and Diaries on the Early Web / James Baker -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric.
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-Amos -- Part I. Diary Theories -- 1. The Practice of Writing a Diary / Philippe Lejeune and Catherine Bogaert, translated from French by Dagmara Meijers-Troller -- 2. Feminist Interpretations of the Diary / Kathryn Carter -- 3. The Diary among Other Forms of Life Writing / Julie Rak -- Part II. The Creation of a Diary Canon -- 4. British Diary Canon Formation / Dan Doll -- 5. The Diary in France and French-Speaking Countries / Michel Braud, translated from French by Dagmara Meijers-Troller -- 6. The American Diary Canon / Steven E. Kagle -- 7. Personal Writings and the Quest for National Identity in Brazil / Sergio da Silva Barcellos -- Part III. The Transformation of the Manuscript -- 8. The Complicated Publication History of the Diaries of Anne Frank / Suzanne L. Bunkers -- 9. Digitized Diary Archives / Desirée Henderson -- Part IV. The Travel Diary -- 10. British and North American Travel Writing and the Diary / Tim Youngs -- 11. Travel Diaries in Australia / Agnieszka Sobocinska -- 12. Travel Diaries in Imperial China / James M. Hargett -- Part V. The Private Diary -- 13. The Contemporary Personal Diary in France / Françoise Simonet-Tenant, translated from French by Dagmara Meijers-Troller -- 14. Writing the Self, Writing History in Palestine / Kimberly Katz -- 15. Sharing Secrets in Nineteenth-Century America / Marilyn Ferris Motz -- 16. The Literary Author as Diarist / Elizabeth Podnieks -- Part VI. The Diary in Political Conflict -- 17. The American Civil War: Confederate Women's Diaries / Kimberly Harrison -- 18. The Archive as a Diary of Resistance: Hendrik Witbooi, Nama Revolutionary, 1884-1905 / Elizabeth R. Baer -- 19. Diary and Narrative: French Soldiers and World War I / Leonard V. Smith.

20. The Stalin-Era Diary / Jochen Hellbeck -- 21. On Holocaust Diaries / Batsheva Ben-Amos -- 22. Estonian Women's Deportation Diaries / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar -- Part VII. Online Diaries -- 23. From Puritans to Fitbit: Self-Improvement, Self-Tracking, and How to Keep a Diary / Kylie Cardell -- 24. Online Diaries and Blogs / Jill Walker Rettberg -- 25. A Journey through Two Decades of Online Diary Community / Lena Buford -- 26. GeoCities and Diaries on the Early Web / James Baker -- Index -- About the Author.

The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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