Form and Function in the Diary NovelContents: Definitions: Basic Qualities, Border-line Cases, Formal Objections; History and Evolution; Mimetics: Editorial Functions, External Form, Dates and Days; Verisimilitude: Start to Finish, Likely Stories, Narra-tease?; Parody; The Character of the Diarist: Life Sentences, Daily Mirrors, Now and Then; Appendix A: Titles of diary novels studied in translation; Appendix B: English titles of French diary novels mentioned in the text; Notes; Bibliography; Index^R |
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A. O. Barnabooth act of writing actually Adrian Mole ambiguity appear awareness becomes character dated entries death detail device diary fiction diary form diary novel Doctor Glas Earl Summerfield edition editor Edwin Carp Edwin Underhill example exploited fact fictional diarists fictional journal first-person French Gallimard genre Gide given Golden Notebook Hammond Innes Horla Ibid illustrates interest Intimate Journal irony Jacques Revel Journal intime Journal of Edwin King Fisher Lives L'Emploi du temps later letter literary literature Louis's Mad Old manuscript mimetic mirror moreover narrative narrator novelist obvious opening parody past person Pontius Pilate precise preface present problem Rapist re-reading reader real diaries realisation recognise record references reflected Rites of Passage Roquentin Salavin Secret seen Simone de Beauvoir story stress style Talbot Tanizaki tense thematic third-person tion truth Turtle Diary verisimilitude Warren Winslow Woman Destroyed words written