Diary Fiction: Writing As Action

By H. Porter Abbott

H. Porter Abbott explores the role of the personal diary and its use as a literary strategy in a number of representative works in fiction. He asserts that the device of the diary can give a work a unique literary reflexivity: the diary not only tells the tale but directly influences its development. This book serves as a guide to the field of diary fiction and at the same time sheds new light on issues central to the study of narrative and autobiography.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801417139
• ISBN13: 9780801417139
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"