Diary Fiction: Writing as Action

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Cornell University Press, 1984 - 228 pagina's
H. Porter Abbott explores the role of the personal diary and its use as a literary strategy in a number of representative works in fiction. He asserts that the device of the diary can give a work a unique literary reflexivity: the diary not only tells the tale but directly influences its development. This book serves as a guide to the field of diary fiction and at the same time sheds new light on issues central to the study of narrative and autobiography.

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Preface
9
Functions of the Diary Strategy
15
The Special Reflexive Function of the Diary Strategy
38
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