On Diary

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CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS V PREFACES Jeremy D. Popkin Philippe Lejeune, Explorer of the Diary 1 Julie Rak Dialogue with the Future: Philippe Lejeune’s Method and Theory of Diary 16 I. INTRODUCTION The Practice of the Private Journal: Chronicle of an Investigation (1986–1998) 29 II. THE DIARY: ORIGINS Counting and Managing 51 Spiritual Journals in France from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries 61 On Today’s Date 79 O My Paper! 93 Marc-Antoine Jullien: Controlling Time 102 Writing While Walking 122 The “Journal de Jeune Fille” in Nineteenth-Century France 129 III. THE DIARY: THEORY The Diary on Trial 147 Composing a Diary 168 The Continuous and the Discontinuous 175 How Do Diaries End? 187 The Diary as “Antifiction” 201 IV. THE DIARY: PRACTICES Auto-Genesis: Genetic Studies of Autobiographical Texts 213 How Anne Frank Rewrote the Diary of Anne Frank 237 Surveying Diaries, Surveying Cultures 267 The Diary on the Computer 280 Diaries on the Internet: A Year of Reading 299 Journals of Exploration 317 Rereading Your Diary 324 V. CONCLUSION Lucullus Dines with Lucullus 329 SELECTED WORKS OF PHILIPPE LEJEUNE 337 NAME INDEX 343 ...