Notebook writing (and Romanticism) [ Diaries & Letters / Reading & Writing ]
… to relate composite materials (thoughts, objects, subjective experiences, readings, encounters…) and turn them into an artwork. This entry focuses more specifically on the socializing function of the notebook and notebook writing and argues … it then reflects the way this object becomes central in social interactions and friendly conversations. As Kevin Gilmartin remarks, romantic theory and criticism have taken little interest in sociability as shaping the Romantic movement. … in their concreteness, in their sensible and social reality, marks them also as spaces for sociability and active participants in the imaginative act of poetry-making. By comparing poets’ notebooks, we may read this reciprocity between …
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