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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Epistolary genre"”.
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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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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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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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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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Literary Relationships: Settler Feminist Readings of Visions of Justice in Indigenous Women’s First-Person Narratives
… (in Spanish) in the 1970s and 1980s, and epistolary exchanges published in Quebec between 2008 and 2016. Each chapter addresses the relationships between author and audience—literary projects—and between reader and text—ways of reading—to examine tensions and affinities in Indigenous and …