How to Read a Diary
Critical Contexts and Interpretive Strategies for 21st-Century Readers
Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-78918-9 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-78918-9 (ISBN)
How to Read a Diary is an accessible and enjoyable introduction to reading diaries that inspires and empowers its readers to study diaries, despite their unusual and challenging characteristics.
How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary writing. Grounded in examples from around the globe and from across history, this book explores the provocative questions diaries pose to readers: Are they private? Are they truthful? Why do some diarists employ codes? Do more women than men write diaries? How has the format changed in the digital age? In answering questions like these, How to Read a Diary offers a new critical vocabulary for interpreting diaries. Readers learn how to analyze diary manuscripts, identify the conventions of diary writing, examine the impact of technology on the genre, and appreciate the myriad personal and political motives that drive diary writing. Henderson also presents the diary’s extensive influence upon literary history, ranging from masterpieces of world literature to young adult novels, graphic novels, and comics. How to Read a Diary invites readers to discover the rich and compelling stories that individuals tell about themselves within the pages of their diaries.
How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary writing. Grounded in examples from around the globe and from across history, this book explores the provocative questions diaries pose to readers: Are they private? Are they truthful? Why do some diarists employ codes? Do more women than men write diaries? How has the format changed in the digital age? In answering questions like these, How to Read a Diary offers a new critical vocabulary for interpreting diaries. Readers learn how to analyze diary manuscripts, identify the conventions of diary writing, examine the impact of technology on the genre, and appreciate the myriad personal and political motives that drive diary writing. Henderson also presents the diary’s extensive influence upon literary history, ranging from masterpieces of world literature to young adult novels, graphic novels, and comics. How to Read a Diary invites readers to discover the rich and compelling stories that individuals tell about themselves within the pages of their diaries.
Desirée Henderson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas Arlington, USA.
1. Introducing the Diary
2. Reading Diary Manuscripts and Editions
3. Reading the Diary as Literature
4. Reading Diary Fiction
5. Reading Digital Diaries
6. Why Diarists Write
Conclusion: How to Write a Diary
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.07.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 550 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-78918-4 / 0415789184 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-78918-9 / 9780415789189 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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