Marginal Voices, Marginal Forms

Diaries in European Literature and History
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-420-0437-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 211 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

Diaristic writing has often been relegated to the fringes of literary studies as a marginal cultural activity. This volume seeks to challenge that marginality by exploring some of the wide-ranging forms of literary practice encompassed by diaristic writing in Europe from the Renaissance to the present day. The volume deals with questions of the value and status of the diary, of the functioning of the diary in society and history, and of the reception and interpretation of the multifarious forms of first-person daily writing. The volume investigates diaries across national borders and linguistic boundaries, so as to make the hitherto marginal place of the private journal a site of fruitful interdisciplinary encounters. Australian, British, Catalonian, French, German and Italian critics examine diaries dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, within the context of the literature, history and literary history of Catalonia, England, France, Germany and Italy. A prime concern of the essays in this collection is to highlight the cultural, generic and historical diversity of the diary, while emphasising the points of convergence between different texts and differing critical approaches to the texts. The volume will be of interest to students and teachers of European and comparative literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Langford, Rachael

West, Russell

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. Contributors. Rachael LANGFORD/Russell WEST: Introduction: Diaries and Margins. Jörgen SCHLAEER: Self-Exploration in Early Modern English Diaries. Frank LAY: the Exploitation of Subjectivity: Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Vanessa AGNEW: Dissecting the Cannibal: Comparing the Function of the Autopsy Principle in the Diaries and Narratives of Cook's Second Voyage. Luisa QUARTERMAINE: Views Beyond the Alps: An American in Turin - The Journal of Caroline Marsh. Jean-Pierre GUILLERM: In the Margins of the Private Diary: The Notes - Edmond and Jules de Goncourt's Notes sur l'Italie 1855-1866. Rachael LANGFORD: Revolutionary Times: The Use of the Diary Form to Contest the French Third Republic in the Jacques Vingtras Trilogy by Jules Vallès. Russell WEST: Space and Language in the Private Diary: Conrad's Congo Diaries.Xavier PLA: The Diaries of Josep Pla: Reflections on the Personal Diary, Draft Diary and Elaborated Diary. Urusula TIDD: Contingent Selves: Simone de Beauvoir's Use of the 'Journal Intime'. Suzanne zur NIEDEN: From the Forgotten Everyday Life of Tyranny: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer. Hanno LOEWY: Saving the Child: The 'Universalisation' of Anne Frank. Anne ROCHE: The Practical of Personal Writing by Non-Writers: Memory, History and Writing.