Reinventing the self: Fictional strategies in diary writing - Dana Craciun

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Although diary writing had a spectacular evolution over the span of about three centuries, critical attention did not always keep up with it. This book attempts to join this necessary critical conversation on the mechanisms and metamorphoses of diary writing by focusing on a particular category of diarists, namely those who write from a position of extreme vulnerability as a result of either psychological or physical conditions. The analysis of the diaries of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Alice...