Dear world : contemporary uses of the diary /

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Where has the personal diary gone--and what forms has it taken--in the digital age? From the diary spaces of reality television and the how-to diary and its audience of self-helpers, in the emerging genre of the graphic diary or the online diaries of sex bloggers, in the published diaries of war cor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cardell, Kylie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]
Series:Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
Subjects:
Diaries > Authorship.
Autobiography.
Journaux intimes > Art d'écrire.
Autobiographie.
autobiography (genre)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Autobiography
Diaries > Authorship
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A public private self: Diary now
  • How to be the authenic you: Therapy, self-help, and the "how-to diary
  • The ethics of being there and seeing: Thomas Goltz, Paul McGeough, and the Journalist's diary of war
  • The intimate appeal of getting closer: The diary as evidence and testimony in Nuha al-Radi, Riverbend, and Suad Amiry
  • Sex, confessioin, and blogging: The online diaries of Belle de Jour and Abby Lee
  • Graphic lives: Visual narration and the diaries of Phoebe Gleckner, Bobby Baker, and "The 1000 Journals Project"
  • Conclusion.

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