The Epistolary Renaissance by Maria Lschnigg
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- -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.-
Playfulness in Comics
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The Aliens Within
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Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
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Theoretische Welten und literarische Transformationen
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Categorial Grammar and Word-Formation: The De-adjectival Abstract Noun in English
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Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision
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Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt's Works
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Dark Nights, Bright Lights
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Narratives of Confinement in American Popular Culture
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The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain
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The Postethnic Literary
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Narratives of Confinement in American Literature
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Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing
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Poem Unlimited
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Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk
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The Age of Curiosity
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Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies
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Political Anxiety in Golden Age Children's Classics and Their Contemporary Adaptations
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British Romanticism and the Archive
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The Public Mind and the Politics of Postmillennial U.S.-American Writing
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Fictions of Infinity
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Anecdotal Modernity
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Precarious Flanerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
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The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse
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The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe
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The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality
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From Chaos to Catastrophe?
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Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture
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Postmodern Plagiarisms
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Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer
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Translating Jazz Into Poetry
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Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature
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Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts
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Making Black History
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Risk and the English Novel
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The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels
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Hidden Topographies
Maria Löschnigg and Rebekka Schuh, University of Graz, Austria.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783110582024 |
| ISBN 10 | 3110582023 |
| Title | The Epistolary Renaissance |
| Author | Maria Löschnigg |
| Series | Buchreihe Der Anglia Anglia Book Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Year published | 2018-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 305 |
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