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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Epistolary"”.
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Epistolary Pedagogy: Communicating Care in the University Classroom
… Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: EPISTOLARY PEDAGOGY: COMMUNICATING CARE IN THE UNIVERSITY CLASSROOM MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Suzanne M. Daughton While many scholars have affirmed the importance of communicating care in pedagogical settings (Noddings; Bubeck; Held; Ruddick; Monchinski; …
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Epistolary Encounters : Diary and Letter Pastiche in Neo-Victorian Fiction.
… letters, and other addressed accounts as epistolary forms. This study concentrates on the strategic ways that writers put fragmented and found material traces in order to emphasise such traces of the past as fragmentary, incomplete, and contradictory. Interpolated documents evoke ideas of …
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The Politics & Poetics of Audience Creation in Contemporary Epistolary Memoir
… Heavy as works of life writing that leverage the epistolary form to engage their direct maternal addressees and audiences beyond them in revision and reconstruction of identity. Secondary audiences are considered in light of Michael Warner’s “Publics and Counterpublics,” and the social affordances …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
<p>While some might consider epistolary novels of the long-eighteenth century as the sentimental purview of women readers, this research proposes that many of these epistolary novels serve as powerful markers in the gender wars of this era. While an overall sense of optimism pervaded Britain’s …
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The Rhythms and Rituals of a Sacred Epistolary: Expressing my Experiences in Holistic and Embodied Ways
<p>This dissertation offers readers a spiritual and intellectual journey through the <em>Saturday Morning Letters</em>, an autoethnographic exploration grounded in endarkened feminist epistemology and the improvisational move—tarrying.</p> <p>I join Dillard (2006), who argued “our methodological …
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"""I feel impelled to write"": male intimacy, epistolary privacy, and the culture of letter writing during the American Civil War"
… Women on the home front played key roles as the epistolary confidants of soldiers. After the war, these women, as well as veterans themselves, sought to maintain the public façade of masculine heroism by silencing the wartime admissions of fear, doubt, and desertion.
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Bodies of Correspondence in Contemporary Quebec: from Gabrielle Roy to le vrai Gab Roy
… and genetic criticism to interrogate the epistolary imaginary of contemporary Québec. Each chapter considers a different constellation of texts from diverse bodies of correspondence (including personal correspondence, letter fiction and digital forms of exchange) as they converse across …
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Melancholic epistolarity : letters and traumatic exile in the novels of three Francophone women
In her 1982 groundbreaking work on the epistolary form in novels, Janet Gurkin Altman gives a working definition of epistolarity which will be a guiding concept for this project; she defines it simply as: “the use of the letter’s formal properties to create meaning…” (Altman 4). Of course, to …
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Perilous Pedagogies: Women's Education and Epistolarity from Rousseau to Charrière
… certain prominent late eighteenth-century French epistolary novels deal with the issue of women's education and the possibility of its reform. The debate of the latter half of the century is firmly centered on Rousseau, who wrote both a best-selling epistolary novel dealing with the position of …
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Impossible to Write Alone: Expanded I and Absent Addressee in Chris Kraus's I Love Dick
… and eighteenth-century precedents in the amatory epistolary genre. By examining the formal constraints that belong to the epistolary medium Kraus employed—requirements such as the "I" of the writer, the "you" of the receiver, and a desire for exchange—I show how she deploys epistolary tropes such …
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L'EPISTOLARIO DI UGO FOSCOLO: CATALOGO
… Originally, the project aimed at describing the epistolary documents contained in volumes 36-47 of the Fondo Foscolo held by Biblioteca Labronica “Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi” in Leghorn. However, the project has expanded its scope beyond this initial goal. This expansion was prompted by factors …
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"In writing it may be spoke": The Politics of Women's Letter-Writing, 1377-1603
… and early modern periods, I argue that the epistolary genre enabled fifteenth- and sixteenth-century women to craft representations of themselves on paper that preserved their modesty yet allowed them to intervene in the public sphere. I also contend that women's letters drew legitimacy from …
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The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I and the Expansion of the Roman Primacy
… himself, particularly his epigraphs, as well as epistolary correspondence. A key component of the research was also comparison and contrast of a number of historical narratives of the pontificate of Damasus. Other primary sources included works, primarily epistolary, of a number of the pope’s …
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Flowers for Abiah: Emily Dickinson's Claim to Live According to Her Own Rules
… Dickinson is known for her poems, but her epistolary body of work is as rich and as compelling. Her letters to Abiah Root reveal Dickinson's mind behind the poet and more importantly show the progression and evolution of Dickinson's ideas and sentiments regarding Victorian societal …
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Corresponding Republics: Letter Writing and Patriot Organizing in the Atlantic Revolutions, circa 1760-1792
… of revolutionary leaders' correspondence and epistolary practices. Letters were the lifeblood of all early modern politics--the means to share information, develop strategies and resolve internecine disputes. This was particularly true of the eighteenth-century Atlantic patriot parties, which …
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The Visual Construction of an Educated Woman in Illustrations of Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long Legs
<p>Jean Webster’s 1912 epistolary novel <em>Daddy-Long-Legs</em> features pen drawings by the author. This thesis examines those pen drawings as a tool for character development and political awareness, and how artists tasked with creating other illustrations for the story misrepresent the …
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Metamorphose
… Inca princess Zilia in Françoise de Graffigny's epistolary novel Lettres d'une péruvienne. It targets the social, as well as the individual aspects of this metamorphosis, offering alternatives for interpretation. Special attention is given to the role played by language as well as by cultural …
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Особенности структуры повествования в письмах: эпистолярий Марины Цветаевой /
… texts as based on Marina Tsvetajeva’s epistolary legacy. The corpus of correspondence includes larger blocks of writings, consisting of Tsvetajeva’s letters to N. Gaidukevitch, S. Andronikova-Galpern, A. Bachrach, A. Berg, V. Bunin, V. Bulgakov, A. Vishniak (Gelikon), N. Gronskij, R. …
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A woman of letters : an examination of the character of Margaret Paston through a selective reading of Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century
… in this way, there is sufficient material in the epistolary record to make an assessment of her character.
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The Spiritual Pedagogy of the Cloud-author
… author’s engagement with monastic and devotional epistolary culture, namely the eleventh- and twelfth-century Latin letters of Bernard of Clairvaux and Anselm of Bec, along with those of the *Cloud*-author’s contemporary, Walter Hilton. The *Cloud*-author uses the epistolary format rhetorically, I …
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