On Diary (Biography Monograph Series)

CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 8
Philippe Lejeune, Explorer of the Diary......Page 10
Dialogue with the Future: Philippe Lejeune’s Method and Theory of Diary......Page 25
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 36
The Practice of the Private Journal: Chronicle of an Investigation(1986–1998)......Page 38
II. THE DIARY: ORIGINS......Page 58
Counting and Managing......Page 60
Spiritual Journals in France from the Sixteenth to theEighteenth Centuries......Page 70
On Today’s Date......Page 88
O My Paper!......Page 102
Marc-Antoine Jullien: Controlling Time......Page 111
Writing While Walking......Page 131
The “Journal de Jeune Fille” in Nineteenth-Century France......Page 138
III. THE DIARY: THEORY......Page 154
The Diary on Trial......Page 156
Composing a Diary......Page 177
The Continuous and the Discontinuous......Page 184
How Do Diaries End?......Page 196
The Diary as “Antifi ction”......Page 210
IV. THE DIARY: PRACTICES......Page 220
Auto-Genesis: Genetic Studies of Autobiographical Texts......Page 222
How Anne Frank Rewrote the Diary of Anne Frank......Page 246
Surveying Diaries, Surveying Cultures......Page 276
The Diary on the Computer......Page 289
Diaries on the Internet: A Year of Reading......Page 308
Journals of Exploration......Page 326
Rereading Your Diary......Page 333
V. CONCLUSION......Page 336
Lucullus Dines with Lucullus......Page 338
SELECTED WORKS OF PHILIPPE LEJEUNE......Page 346
NAME INDEX......Page 352