{"product_id":"epistolarity-in-a-post-letter-world-sindija-franzetti-9783111155081","title":"Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World: Five Contemporary American Case Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eGriffin \u0026amp; Sabine\u003c\/em\u003e series (1991-2016), Gordon Lish's \u003cem\u003eEpigraph\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), Mark Dunn's \u003cem\u003eElla Minnow Pea\u003c\/em\u003e (2001), Marilynne Robinson's \u003cem\u003eGilead\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), and Louise Erdrich's \u003cem\u003eFuture Home of the Living God\u003c\/em\u003e (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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sindija Franzetti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3111155080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783111155081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Sindija Franzetti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46199246127359,"sku":"9783111155081","price":117.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d0c400b0-1877-4170-b43f-ca4dec27de7d.jpg?v=1727925487","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/epistolarity-in-a-post-letter-world-sindija-franzetti-9783111155081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}