"Between the 17th and 19th centuries autobiographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments. Egodocuments can bring the pa…
"The essays in this collection consider the diaries and journals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Diaries and journals took many forms - depending on the occupation, gender, social status, and religious commitment of the writer. They ranged in their forms from brief …
Op 11 november 2007 vraagt Hans van Mierlo Connie Palmen ten huwelijk. Op 11 november 2009, de dag waarop ze elf jaar en elf dagen bij elkaar zijn, trouwen ze in de Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. Op 11 maart 2010, na een ziekbed van zes weken, sterft Hans van Mierlo op de intensivecare…
Nelson Mandela: conversations with myself
by Harris, Verne, Mandela, Nelson, Obama, Barack
Dagboekaantekeningen en andere notities van de Zuid-Afrikaanse politicus.
The Mirror and the Veil offers a unique perspective on the phenomenon of online personal diaries and blogs. Blending insights from literary criticism, from psychoanalytical theory and from social sciences, Viviane Serfaty identifies the historical roots of self-representational …
The phenomenon online personal diaries and blogs is described. Insights from literary criticism, from psychoanalytical theory and social sciences are given. The author describes the historical roots of self-representational writing in America and the features on the Internet.
The Mirror and the Veil offers a unique perspective on the phenomenon of online personal diaries and blogs. Blending insights from literary criticism, from psychoanalytical theory and from social sciences, Viviane Serfaty identifies the historical roots of self-representational …
This highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information about their authors' public works? Do diaries dramatise the development of an individual literary `voice'? What was th…
Focusing on four Dutch diaries from different periods of the early modern age, this book describes in detail the diversified use of reading in everyday life, examining it in a wider context of communication that also includes writing and speech.