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Author Podnieks, Elizabeth, 1964-

Title Daily modernism : the literary diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin / Elizabeth Podnieks
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 407 pages)
Contents Blurring Boundaries: Mapping the Diary as Autobiography and Fiction -- "That profoundly female, and feminist, genre" -- Life Writing a Modernist Text -- Virginia Woolf's Diary: "the proper stuff of fiction" -- "Still waiting for revelation: key to unlock": The Diaries of Antonia White, A Literary Case Study -- "Keep out / Keep out / Your snooting snout": The Irresistible Diaries of Elizabeth Smart -- "I was born to hear applause": Self-Promotion and Performance in the Diaries of Anais Nin
Summary "In contrast to autobiography, which is intended for a public audience, diaries have traditionally been thought of as a private record of an individual's life. In Daily Modernism Elizabeth Podnieks shows that the diary can and should be read as both autobiography and fiction. She makes it clear that Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anais Nin wrote their diaries under the pretence that they were private, while always intending them to be published. Redrawing established boundaries between genres, Podnieks details how diaries inscribe the aesthetics of literary modernism. Drawing on feminist theory, literary history, biography, and anecdotes, she argues that the diary is an especially subversive genre for women writers."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject White, Antonia, 1899-1980.
SUBJECT White, Antonia, 1899-1980 fast
Subject English diaries -- Women authors -- History and criticism
American diaries -- Women authors -- History and criticism
English diaries -- History and criticism
Canadian diaries -- History and criticism
Women authors, English -- Diaries -- History and criticism
Women authors, Canadian -- Diaries -- History and criticism
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women authors, English -- Diaries -- History and criticism
Women authors, Canadian -- Diaries -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
English literature -- Women authors
English diaries
Canadian diaries
American literature -- Women authors
American diaries -- Women authors
English diaries -- Women authors
Dagboeken.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Engels.
Amerikaans.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773568242
0773568247