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Daily modernism [[electronic resource] ] : the literary diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin / / Elizabeth Podnieks



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Autore: Podnieks Elizabeth Visualizza persona
Titolo: Daily modernism [[electronic resource] ] : the literary diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin / / Elizabeth Podnieks Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
Disciplina: 828/.91203099287
Soggetto topico: English diaries - Women authors - History and criticism
Authors, English - 20th century - History and criticism
Authors, American - 20th century - History and criticism
Authors, Canadian - 20th century - Diaries - History and criticism
Women and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century
Diaries - Women authors - History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain
Modernism (Literature) - United States
Modernism (Literature) - Canada
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-395) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Blurring Boundaries: Mapping the Diary as Autobiography and Fiction; 2 ""That profoundly female, and feminist, genre""; 3 Life Writing a Modernist Text; 4 Virginia Woolf's Diary: ""the proper stuff of fiction""; 5 ""Still waiting for revelation: key to unlock"": The Diaries of Antonia White, A Literary Case Study; 6 ""Keep out / Keep out / Your snooting snout"": The Irresistible Diaries of Elizabeth Smart; 7 ""I was born to hear applause"": Self-Promotion and Performance in the Diaries of Anai's Nin; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y
Sommario/riassunto: Redrawing established boundaries between genres, Podnieks builds a broad critical and theoretical range on which she maps the diary as an aesthetic work, showing how diaries inscribe the aesthetics of literary modernisms. Drawing on feminist theory, literary history, biography, and personal anecdotes, she argues that the diary is an especially subversive space for women writers. Podnieks details how Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin wrote their diaries under the pretence that they were private, while always intending them to be published. She travelled extensively to examine the original diary manuscripts and offers unique first-hand descriptions of the manuscripts that underscore the artistic intentions of their authors. Daily Modernism contributes to the ongoing feminist revision of literary history and, in its disruption of traditional concepts of "major" and "minor" literary forms, paves the way for a much needed reconsideration of the diary as a valid literary achievement.
Titolo autorizzato: Daily modernism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-85844-0
9786612858444
0-7735-6824-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781903703321
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