Description: Further DetailsTitle: Epistolarity in a Post-Letter WorldCondition: NewFormat: HardbackEAN: 9783111155081Item Weight: 360gLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 3111155080ISBN: 9783111155081Type: History & CriticismItem Length: 155mmItem Height: 230mmSubtitle: Five Contemporary American Case StudiesPublisher: De GruyterRelease Date: 18/11/2024Description: The study intervenes in a field hitherto dominated by formal and historical analyses of the literary letter. Across the five case studies, the method of reading epistolarity as a motif is applied to a selection of American novels published after 1990: Nick Bantock’s Griffin & Sabine series (1991-2016), Gordon Lish’s Epigraph (1996), Mark Dunn’s Ella Minnow Pea (2001), Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead (2004), and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God (2017). The texts encompass considerable formal and thematic variations: Bantock seeks a return to the literary letter; Lish and Dunn test the limitations of letters for conveying individual experience to a distant other; Robinson and Erdrich envision epistolarity as an address to a future. Exploring the employment of epistolarity as a motif, the study offers an interpretation of the messages these fictions extend for readers in a post-letter world. Communication technologies and practices may change, but epistolarity as a motif - a reprise of a scene of encounter that depends on keeping a distance between addresser and addressee – remains a deeply compelling site of inquiry in twenty-first-century literature. Country/Region of Manufacture: DEAuthor: Sindija FranzettiGenre: BiographyTopic: Literary CriticismBook Series: Buchreihe Der Anglia / Anglia Book SeriesRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World
Publication Name: Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World
Title: Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World
EAN: 9783111155081
Item Weight: 360g
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3111155080
ISBN: 9783111155081
Type: History & Criticism
Item Length: 155mm
Item Height: 230mm
Subtitle: Five Contemporary American Case Studies
Publisher: De Gruyter
Release Year: 2024
Release Date: 18/11/2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Author: Sindija Franzetti
Genre: Biography
Subject: Literary Criticism
Series: Buchreihe Der Anglia / Anglia Book Series
