Sentence examples for literary diary from inspiring English sources
Tosa nikki is the earliest example of a literary diary.
Frayn, under the false impression that Tomalin was writing a literary diary of some sort, went to extravagant lengths to think of "witty and striking things to say".
In 1939 Kuncewiczowa escaped from Warsaw to Paris, and in 1940 she went to England, where she wrote Klucze (1943; The Keys), a literary diary that, in the English version, is subtitled A Journey Through Europe at War.
It is one of the uta monogatari ("poem tales") that emerged as a literary genre in the late 10th century and is related to the literary diary form that preceded it.
We learn that upon receiving his free copy of a large bookstore chain's literary diary, which records the birthdays of famous authors, Mr. Bennett easily found the birthdays of Dennis Potter, Michael Frayn and Edna O'Brien.
Leary, who videotaped his own demise, says, "Why not?" But unlike many literary diaries, "Last Words" is rarely personal, even though the journals are an exploration in depth, and in sum, of Burroughs's personality and creative preoccupations.
The way smoking draws attention to the relationship between the spaces of the body and external space is well represented in the English playwright Simon Gray's series of literary diaries about his life and writing.
By 1952, when he pitched to Kultura, a prestigious Polish literary journal based in Paris, the idea of writing a diary for publication, Gombrowicz was demoralized and desperate.
A short preview of her findings is in the fall 2009 issue of The Southern Literary Journal; her book "Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Diary," is due out in June from Louisiana State University Press.
Two new light-hearted animal books for children use as their vehicle that most personal and private of human literary devices: the diary.
However, while autobiography and memoir have gained ground as legitimate and canonical literary modes, the diary retains an association with inappropriate, overly personal, or pejoratively "private" discourse.
