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Blog literacki, czyli dziennik pisany zapiskami z lektur. Blogosfera francuska
Literary blogs: Diaries featuring notes from reading material

Author(s): Aneta Bassa
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, French Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: literary blog; diary; notes from reading; literary life

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the similarities between literary blogs and personal diaries. A literary blog is a specific kind of personal diary in which the author focuses less on personal experience and instead on the outside world, or rather on a particular part of it: notes made on what he or she had read and on the literary life of his or her era. Personal motifs and elements from the author’s private life are marginal as they become part of a broader narrative in which books become central. The boundary between the personal and the public becomes highly fluid. This article shows how the interpenetration of the intime and extime worlds influences the definition of the literary blog as a genre.

  • Issue Year: 13/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 59-71
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish