Elizabeth Podnieks. Daily Modernism...

Elizabeth Podnieks. Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart and A nais Nin Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP 2000 407 pp ISBN 0-7735-2021-X $6500

The stimulating title of this work introduces its central paradox. Diaries are by means of definition linear; the disruption of chronological narration is single of the most recognizable characteristics of early Modernism. Elizabeth Podnieks argues persuasively that the techniques of diary-writing, for example dashes and ellipses indicating a fluid stream of study resemble those in ...