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 76
... letters : the pocket mirror in which she applies her makeup . " Does my despair , then , exist only in my letters ? " ( 49 ) . At the end of the fourth letter , when the lieutenant who is to take it to the cavalier tells her he must go ...
... letters : the pocket mirror in which she applies her makeup . " Does my despair , then , exist only in my letters ? " ( 49 ) . At the end of the fourth letter , when the lieutenant who is to take it to the cavalier tells her he must go ...
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... letters he discovers a character of quite a different depth and a plot , too , of an altogether different shape . He discovers that what had been for him an amusing tale had really been a harrowing one — on the brink of tragedy . Char ...
... letters he discovers a character of quite a different depth and a plot , too , of an altogether different shape . He discovers that what had been for him an amusing tale had really been a harrowing one — on the brink of tragedy . Char ...
Pagina 91
... letters are instruments of influ- ence . Clarissa's odious sister puts her finger on it : “ You had always a knack at writing ; and depended upon making every one do what you would when you wrote . But from our perspective , the im ...
... letters are instruments of influ- ence . Clarissa's odious sister puts her finger on it : “ You had always a knack at writing ; and depended upon making every one do what you would when you wrote . But from our perspective , the im ...
Inhoudsopgave
Preface | 9 |
Functions of the Diary Strategy | 15 |
The Special Reflexive Function of the Diary Strategy | 38 |
Copyright | |
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