She had told him die truth." Such is the legacy ofthese six diaries in bringing them to our attention, Amy Wink has articulated a profitable critical approach, applicable to all sorts ofdiaries. At the end ofVirginiaWoolf's story, after reading his wife's diaries and discovering that her death was really a suicide, die widower reflects, "He had received his legacy. As Wink writes of her own reaction to the diaries, "It is through their writing moments that I have come to write and to understand the person I myselfam continually becoming" (130). By the concluding chapter, "Something in Particular: Writing, Journals, and the Evidence ofPresence," we see the ways in which reading diaries can inspire teachers and dieir students in their own writing. Personal writing is a good way to introduce theoretical concepts ofsubjectivity and identity, making She ?f Nothing in Particukr a good starting point for undergraduate study. Theverypatriarchal and paternalistic social order on which they relyfor theiridentities " (120-121). In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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