The Private Life of the Diary: From Pepys to Tweets: a History of the Diary As an Art Form - Rilegato

Bayley, Sally

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ISBN 10: 1783522224 ISBN 13: 9781783522224

Casa editrice: Unbound, 2016

Riassunto

Diaries keep secrets, harbouring our fantasies and fictional histories. They are substitute boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses and friends. But in this age of social media, the role of the diary as a private confidante has been replaced by a culture of public self-disclosure.This book is an examination of the importance of writing and self-reflection as a means of forging identity. It mourns the loss of the diary as an acutely private form of writing. And it champions it as a conduit to self-discovery, allowing us to ask ourselves the question: Who or What am I in relation to the world?

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Sally Bayley is a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford and a Lecturer in English at Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford. She has written widely on visual responses to literature, including a jointly authored study of Sylvia Plath's relationship to the visual arts: Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual and a study of Plath as a cultural icon: Representing Sylvia Plath. In 2010 she completed a cross-media study of Emily Dickinson as a way of thinking about America's relationship to space and place: Home on the Horizon: America's Search for Space, from Emily Dickinson to Bob Dylan.

Sally's book of narrative non-fiction, The Private Life of the Diary: from Pepys to Tweets, tells the story of the diary as a coming of age story, and she is now completing a literary memoir about growing up in an all-female charismatic household and her escape by reading.

Sally Bayley is a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford and a Lecturer in English at Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Unbound
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1783522224
• ISBN 13: 9781783522224
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile