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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Epistolary Novel"”.
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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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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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,,Lässt sich aus diesem bilde wohl der charakter der person schliessen?” Ekphrastische strukturen und das frauenbild in Wilhem Meisters Lehrjahre, Die Leiden des Jungen Werther und Emilia Galotti
… Emilia Galotti, Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) and Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795). In these cases, the ekphrastic writing about a piece of art in literary texts functions as a verbal representation of an absent visual object. …
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"Intertextuality in Goethe's ""Werther"""
… German author Johann W. Goethe’s epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther. The project consists of five chapters with a theory of intertextuality based on M.M. Bakhtin's ideas, which are presented primarily in the introduction. Chapter One addresses references to Klopstock, …
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A space for women? Space and place in women's novels, 1790 -1820.
This study examines the emergence of the novel as a writing site for women writers and traces the ways in which women novelists between 1790 and 1820 represented space within their novels. It identifies how women used both the space afforded by the novel, and the representations of space in the …
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"""Dann ist und Bleibt eine Korrespondenz lebendig"" Romantic Dialogue in the Letters and Works of Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Bettina Brentano von Arnim, and Karoline von Günderrode"
… these women authors and their peers. These epistolary projects reflect a different approach of each woman writer to their letters: Levin Varnhagen’s letters were destined to be published from the beginning; Bettina Brentano von Arnim’s letters were used as a material for her fictional …
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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 …