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  title info:
    title: Epistolarity in a post-letter world
    sub title: five contemporary American case studies
  name:
    name part: Franzetti, Sindija
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 148 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "The study intervenes in a field hitherto dominated by formal and historical analyses of the literary letter. Across the five case studies, the method of reading epistolarity as a motif is applied to a selection of American novels published after 1990: Nick Bantock's Griffin & Sabine series (1991-2016), Gordon Lish's Epigraph (1996), Mark Dunn's Ella Minnow Pea (2001), Marilynne Robinson's Gilead (2004), and Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God (2017). The texts encompass considerable formal and thematic variations: Bantock seeks a return to the literary letter; Lish and Dunn test the limitations of letters for conveying individual experience to a distant other; Robinson and Erdrich envision epistolarity as an address to a future. Exploring the employment of epistolarity as a motif, the study offers an interpretation of the messages these fictions extend for readers in a post-letter world. Communication technologies and practices may change, but epistolarity as a motif - a reprise of a scene of encounter that depends on keeping a distance between addresser and addressee - remains a deeply compelling site of inquiry in twenty-first-century literature."--Publisher's website.
  table of contents: Chapter One The Epistolary Novel and Epistolarity -- Chapter Two The Post-Letter World -- Chapter Three Re(dis)covering Epistolarity with Nick Bantock's Griffin & Sabine Series -- Chapter Four Communion Through Letters in Gordon Lish's Epigraph -- Chapter Five A World Without Letters: The Case of Mark Dunn's Ella Minnow Pea -- Chapter Six A Father's Letter to the Future: Epistolarity as a Legacy in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead -- Chapter Seven "This Notebook, Your Letter": The Future Reader and the Pivotal Present in Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God.
  note: Sindija Franzetti.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Epistolary fiction, English
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American letters
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Letter writing
    topic: History
  classification: PS374.E65 F73 2025
  classification: 813/.5409
  classification: 420
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Buchreihe der Anglia ; v. 83
  identifier: 9783111155081
  identifier: 3111155080
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240307
    record change date: 20250802185408.8
    record identifier: in00005655276
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng