Francoise Simonet-Tenant. Le Journa...

Francoise Simonet-Tenant. Le Journal Intime: Genre litteraire et ecriture ordinaire. Paris: Nathan Universite, litterature 128 2001 128 pp ISBN 209-1 90869-X

An update of critical studies onward the literary diary, this well-organized easy read in outline form divides itself into four major sections. The first attempts a definition of the genre and its specificity. The next to the first section traces the evolution of the literary diary from the eighteenth hundred onward, as well as its memorandum into officialdom through publication. The third section analyzes the proces itself of keeping a