...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...

...: 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...

...?” —quotes the questions Tolstoy repeatedly posed to himself along this quest. Paperno's previous book, Stories of Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams (2009), provided a fascinating examination of post-Soviet personal narratives and perhaps inspired an equally fascinating, original approach...

... 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 repatriation, the despondent, suicidal Nao...

... 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...

... . Set in the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Ozeki's novel is the story of a schoolgirl's diary that washes up as flotsam at a beach on Cortes Island, British Columbia, a few months after the disaster and is discovered by Ruth, a novelist, and her husband Oliver. We read the diary...

... nationalism, promoting in their place an inclusive, cosmopolitan version 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...

... . Wilson Jean Moorcroft . Virginia Woolf: Life and London; A Biography of Place . Ill. McDermid Leonard . New York : Norton , 1988 . Wiseman Sam . The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism . Clemson : Clemson UP , 2015 . Woolf Virginia . The Diary of Virginia Woolf...

... Harker’s diaries as he travels across Europe to Transylvania, eventually finding himself confined against his will in Count Dracula’s castle, where he is the object of terrifying threats and macabre erotic approaches. Jonathan’s breath- less accounts of the supernatural horrors and sexual violence he...

...) that blurred the lines between soldiers and non-combatants and that encour- aged civilians to recognize the proximate danger of warfare. 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...

... 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...

..., and recorded in her diary a stream of social visits by high-ranking civil servants. 7 When writing Mrs Dalloway , which is set within the “governing-class spirit” of Westminster (Dalloway 65), she was reading Trollope's Prime Minister ( Diary 2: 208 ). Yet merely acknowledging the surface appearance...

... 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...

... to fit. Because, moreover, the narrative of Dracula is a collective production, composed of vari- ous individuals' records, diaries, and testimonies, the identity of these characters and their reproductive practices can never appear merely assimilative. Records are produced by many persons, fkom...