Diary Fiction: Writing as ActionCornell 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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Pagina 36
... acts are not even acts but utterly insignificant events in an embracing determinism : " I felt my ' action ' to be a link in a chain , a wave in a greater movement ; a chain and a movement which had had their beginning long before my ...
... acts are not even acts but utterly insignificant events in an embracing determinism : " I felt my ' action ' to be a link in a chain , a wave in a greater movement ; a chain and a movement which had had their beginning long before my ...
Pagina 42
... acts can fail to occur , and it is in the text that they can be stifled . To return to our example , the day after ... act by attempting to convert the tale of her seduction into a ghost story , changing or blurring the characters and ...
... acts can fail to occur , and it is in the text that they can be stifled . To return to our example , the day after ... act by attempting to convert the tale of her seduction into a ghost story , changing or blurring the characters and ...
Pagina 44
... acts is severed , because in such a vision the will of the writer operates , if it does so at all , independently of the enlightenment that may be registered in the text . The reflexive diary , in contrast , is so plotted as to make the ...
... acts is severed , because in such a vision the will of the writer operates , if it does so at all , independently of the enlightenment that may be registered in the text . The reflexive diary , in contrast , is so plotted as to make the ...
Inhoudsopgave
Preface | 9 |
Functions of the Diary Strategy | 15 |
The Special Reflexive Function of the Diary Strategy | 38 |
Copyright | |
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