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The epistolary renaissance : a critical approach to contemporary letter narratives in anglophone fiction / edited by Maria Löschnigg and Rebekka Schuh.
Löschnigg, Maria, editor.; Schuh, Rebekka, editor.
2018
PR830.E65
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Title
The epistolary renaissance : a critical approach to contemporary letter narratives in anglophone fiction / edited by Maria Löschnigg and Rebekka Schuh.
ISBN
9783110582178 (electronic bk.)
3110582171 (electronic bk.)
9783110584813 (electronic bk.)
3110584816 (electronic bk.)
9783110582024
3110582023
Imprint
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
PR830.E65
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1053568621
Summary
Since the late twentieth century, letters in literature have seen a remarkable renaissance. The prominence of letters in recent fiction is due in part to the rediscovery, by contemporary writers, of letters as an effective tool for rendering aspects of historicity, liminality, marginalization and the expression of subjectivity vis-à-vis an 'other'; it is also due, however, to the artistically challenging inclusion of the new electronic media of communication into fiction. While studies of epistolary fiction have so far concentrated on the eighteenth century and on thematic concerns, this volume charts the epistolary renaissance in recent literature, entering new territory by also focusing on the aesthetic implications of the epistolary mode. In particular, the essays in this volume illuminate the potential of the epistolary (including digital forms) for rendering contemporary sensitivities. The volume thus offers a comprehensive assessment of letter narratives in contemporary literature. Through its focus on the aesthetic and structural aspects of new epistolary fiction, the inclusion of various narrative forms, and the consideration of both conventional letters and their new digital kindred, The Epistolary Renaissance offers novel insight into a multi-facetted (re)new(ed) genre.
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Table of Contents
Introduction to this Volume / Löschnigg, Maria / Schuh, Rebekka
Part I: Contemporary Epistolary Fiction: New Approaches
Epistolarity. Theoretical and Generic Preliminaries / Löschnigg, Maria / Schuh, Rebekka
Part II: The Epistolary Short Story
The Epistolary Short Story and the Representation of History / Löschnigg, Maria
Enveloped in Epistolary Illusion. The Aesthetics of Reading and Writing Letters in Selected Short Stories by Alice Munro / Schuh, Rebekka
Epistolarity in Twenty-First Century Nigerian Short Fiction / Feldner, Maximilian
Wish I Was There. Economies of Communication in Annie Proulx's Postcards and "Brokeback Mountain" / Brindle, Kym
Part III: The Contemporary Epistolary Novel
Epistolary Forms as Semiotic and Generic Modes in the Multimodal Novel / Hallet, Wolfgang
Isolation, Participation and Communication in Young Adult Unidirectional Epistolary Fiction / Kazianka, Lisa
From Ireland with Love: The Use of Epistolary Writing in Cecelia Ahern's Fiction / Pfandl-Buchegger, Ingrid
An Open Letter to Nick Bantock OR Letters and/as Ephemera(l): Desire, Transposition and Transpoetic Possibility with/in Epistolary Form / Hawkins, Ames
The Epistolary Revenant: Teaching Against Linearity / Bowers, Toni
Part IV: Literature and Electronic Correspondence
E-Mail Epistlemologies / Beebee, Thomas O.
Stuplimity and Quick Media Epistolarity in Lauren Myracle's Internet Girls Series / Schultermandl, Silvia
In the Age of Vlogging: Functions of the Letter in YouTubers' Fiction and Non-Fiction / Jandl, Silke
E-pistolary Novels and Networks: Registering Formal Shifts between Henry Fielding's Shamela (1741) and Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story (2010) / Kovach, Elizabeth
The Right Sort of Form for "The Right Sort": David Mitchell's Tweet-Story / Bayer, Gerd
Contributors
Index.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 26, 2018).
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Löschnigg, Maria, editor.
Schuh, Rebekka, editor.
Series
Buchreihe der Anglia ; volume 62.
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