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...CLAUDIA MOSCOVICI SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN, Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), pp. 232, paper, $14.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Budapest Diary SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN, Budapest Diary: In Search...

...Benjamin H. Ogden One of the most pressing problems posed by J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year is that of the novel as a genre: what it is and is not, how readers “create” texts and their meanings, how literary tradition and genre typologies are constructed and passed down, the plasticity...

... of the literary in our globalized, multimedia present? These questions also happen to lie at the heart of J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (2007). As I argue in this essay, this is not just because it is a challengingly singular literary act, which demands that we rethink some of our guiding assumptions about...

...James Draney Abstract How do novels come to terms with the social and economic structures engendered by big data and surveillance capitalism? This question weighs heavily on J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (2007) and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015), two novels whose intellectual protagonists...

... through handwritten diary entries and partly through the online searches, emails, and editorial efforts of a fictionalized version of Ozeki, the novel blends multiple modes and media into its depiction of intimately embodied reading practices. At the same time, its depiction of gendered and racialized...

...: The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Volume 3, 1923-1928 . Ed. Nicolson Nigel and Trautmann Joanne. London: Hogarth, 1977 . ———. Collected Essays . Vol. 4 . London: Hogarth, 1967 . ———. The Common Reader: First Series . New York: Harcourt, 1953 . ———. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Volume 4...

... a consideration of the diaries assiduously maintained by the young Tolstoy in the 1850s. Emulating Benjamin Franklin, Tolstoy kept notebooks on rules of life and used his diary as an instrument in moral perfectionism. Each evening he outlined the next day's goals in self-improvement, and the following day...

... ). According to Ozeki, the novel had always contained the story of a reader finding the diary of Naoko “Nao” (temporal pun intended) Yasutani, a sixteen-year-old girl who “wash[es] up back in Tokyo” after her father loses his Silicon Valley job ( Ozeki, pers. comm. ). Struggling to adjust to her family's...

... investigates moments of apparent self-exposure in sensibility (chapter 3), in conversation (chapter 5), in pornography (chapter 6), and in the confessions of diaries and memoirs (chapter 7). She looks too at momen6 when the self is apparently composed for a public audience, protected behind a weli...

... rhetorically shaped, gender-marked consumer contexts, opening up their particularities. Thus, Deborah Garfield's analysis of the highly popular diary of Opal Whiteley outlines one dimension of the fascinating history of mas (i.e., middleclass) approval. The Story of Opal's "extraordinary...

... Haven: Yale UP, 1965 . 184 –235. Lyotard , Jean-Francois . The Postmodern Condition: A Report On Knowledge . Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984 . McDonald , Andrew . The Turner Diaries . Hillsboro, WV: National Vanguard Books, 1978...

... of Irish identity. Rather than quarantine Casement’s sexu- ality from his efforts to redress colonial atrocities, for example, Mullen argues that the so- called Black Diaries, which detail Casement’s homoerotic liaisons in South America, 494 NOVEL FALL 2014 ‘‘supplement [his] human...

...Timothy Bewes * * * A journal issue—like a tree or a whale, according to Ozeki, or like a letter, according to Wilkinson—is a time being. Its essence is durational in the way that a “blog,” for example, is not ( Ozeki 26 ). By the time you read this, says Nao in the diary entry that opens...

... (52), and yet Woolf's letters and diaries reveal that she wrote The Waves from within a number of irritatingly permeable listening spaces, spaces unceasingly compromised by the sounds of modern London and the impositions of her social acquaintances (see Letters ; Diary vols. 3 and 4). Put...

... resurrection of the marriage-plot, a vision of it made possible by the queer distance, this time, of the closet. Dracula begins twice and simultaneously. We are first given extracts from Jonathan Harker’s diaries as he travels across Europe to Transylvania, eventually finding himself confined...

.... A clear strength of Levenback's work is her ability to wrest meaningful tidbits from the vast collection of diaries, letters, manuscripts, and essays that define Woolf's oeuvre. Levenback's tenacity as a researcher is commendable here, for she not only has chosen to work with lesser-known Woolf...

... are teaching them. Think The Nanny Diaries next to Pride and Prejudice, not the latter with Our Lady of Flowers. No wonder we are seeing numerous courses on chick lit appearing in English departments and gender studies programs. Wit- ness, we are told, a course titled Flirting with the “F-Word”: Chick Lit...

... Leonard . Empire and Commerce in Africa: A Study in Economic Imperialism . 1920. London : George Allen and Unwin , 1968 . Woolf Virginia . The Diary of Virginia Woolf . 5 vols. Ed. Bell Anne Olivier . London : Hogarth , 1977 . Woolf Virginia . Jacob’s Room . 1922. New...

... Arendt.” Poetics Today 26 ( 2005 ): 581 –611. Coetzee , J.M. Age of Iron . London: Secker, 1990 . Coetzee , J.M. Diary of a Bad Year . London: Harvill, 2007 . Coetzee , J.M. Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews . Ed. David Attwell. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992...

.... 164 novel | spring 2010 as the postcolonial construction of narrative is necessarily fragmented and under construction, in this text’s representation of the captain’s diary we also see that the archive of Empire itself is moldy, fading, and indeed even becoming illegible...