...Arthur Rose; Chull Wang Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Arthur Rose and Chull Wang Questions of Hospitality in Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year Arthur Rose and Chull Wang Writing is not free expression. There is a true sense in which writing is dialogic: a matter...

...Johan Geertsema Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Johan Geertsema Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year, Politics, and the Problem of Position Johan Geertsema Why is it so hard to say anything about politics from outside politics? Why can there be no discourse about...

...Sarah E. Cornish The World War II diary A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (2005) documents one woman’s story of survival in the spring of 1945 in Berlin, during which upward of 130,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Red Army. First, this essay introduces the politics...

... “the drawing room” (108), will lack the felt freedom from the market­ place that Woolf sees as necessary to intellectual integrity. A diary entry written after Woolf gave the talks that became A Room of One’s Own makes it clear that she did not imagine that sort of financial and intel­ lectual...

... by the publication of Beckett’s letters in four volumes beginning a decade ago, as well as Mark Nixon’s work on Beckett’s German diaries, which chronicle the writer’s encounters with the Nazi regime in late 1936 and early 1937. On the other hand, the present studies could also be said to represent a fruition...

... Woolf. This is a woman who lived happily mar­ ried to a Jew and whose private references to Leonard as “my Jew” are marital jokes (Diary 1: 11), yet whose diaries regularly efface the indi­ vidual Jew and reduce him or her to an identity that is generalized and conceptual rather than...

... a context for the 6 Coetzee’s Lateness and the Detours of Globalization author’s recent allegorical explorations of the concept. Specifically, what Coetzee has achieved in Diary of a Bad Year is the partial dismantlement of a Schmittian political economy of the dichotomous friend/enemy...

... and modernist form. Killing the other: Levinas, war, and ethics Before turning to Jacob’s Room, composed in the years just after World War I and published in 1922,1 want to examine Woolf’s writing in her diary during the war in order to consider her immediate response...

... writing body. This is the exile from one’s body about which Paul Rayment thinks in Slow Man: “he is running down” (53-54), unstrung in Homeric language. So it is with the characters of Elizabeth Costello and JC, in their respec- tive books, Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year: persons...

... Colette gain access to a copy of The Hamwood Papers (1930)—the true story of the Ladies of Llangollen, two wealthy British women who eloped together and then lived as lovers in Wales in the eighteenth century. Whereas Colette actively reworked the diary of Eleanor Butler, one of the two Ladies...

..., suggest? ——Woolf, Diary (27 March 1919) Virginia Woolf encoded her ambivalent relation to two prior generations of literary and familial history in her first two novels. Both The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919) illuminate her self- fashioning as a modern...

... “mixed up” in a long procession of Nazi support­ ers who had gathered to greet the Reich commander Goering—precisely Twentieth-Century Literature 54.3 Fall 2008 273 Lara Trubowitz the kind of procession thatWigram had told them to avoid. Here is how Virginia describes it in her diary...

... Diary for 1930–43 includes notes most likely taken at the Hampton public library. 10 References to Werewocomoco, to “Chick a conn,” the Powhatan name for the Northern Neck of Virginia, and the phrase “on the Chickahominy,” whose rhythmic contour survives in “Virginia Britannia,” derive from pamphlets...

... African safari (352). And in his 1999 study, Hemingway’s Fetishism, Carl P. Eby deliv- ers an exhaustive report on Hemingway’s sexuality and gender identity, quoting portions of Mary’s diary included in her memoir, in which, on the same 1953 trip, Hemingway established a “New Names Department...

... approach (textual biography) and the textual-hermeneutic approach. Diaries and a student’s notes are the resources of the biographic- genetic scholar, a method exemplified by Mark Nixon’s and Dirk Van Hulle’s essays. Van Hulle opens “Samuel Beckett’s Faust Notes” by lay- ing bare...

... has grown up an unhappy child, feeling displaced, a situation a return visit to France in his late youth did nothing to assuage. The condition of which the text speaks goes well beyond its narrative pretext. What is true of Rayment is also true of JC in Diary of a Bad Year. It might...

... of a Dog, by a Dog: Between Anthropocentricism and Canine-Centrism .” In DeMello , 49 – 59 . Kafka Franz . 1976 . Diaries 1910–1923 . Edited by Brod Max . New York : Schocken . Kafka Franz . 2005 . The Complete Short Stories . Edited by Glatzer Nahum N. Translated...

... to respect his daughter’s whimsical ambitions. She refused to contemplate marriage, which she considered “a sedative or a poison” (Diary 14 November 1912); and even when she wrote him of her plans (not fulfilled) to become an unwed mother, he assured her of his love whatever she chose to do...

... diary: There are 6 apples in the Cézanne picture. What can 6 apples not be? I began to wonder. Theres [sic] their relationship to each other, & their colour, & their solidity. To Roger & Nessa, 424 Still Life in Motion: Mortal Form in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse moreover...

.... In Clifford’s Blues Williams adopts the first-person autobiography common to many slave narratives and much Holocaust literature—and to the blues music that gives the novel its title. The bulk of the novel is presented as the diary of a fictional Dachau prisoner named Clifford Pepperidge. Clifford’s testimony...