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The epistolary renaissance : a critical approach to contemporary letter narratives in anglophone fiction /

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Löschnigg, Maria (Editor ), Schuh, Rebekka (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2018.
Colección:Buchreihe der Anglia ; volume 62.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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.