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Huttar, Charles A. "The Screwtape Letters as Epistolary Fiction." Journal of Inklings Studies 6, no. 1 (April 2016): 87–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ink.2016.6.1.5.

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Epistolary fiction, often thought of as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, enjoys considerable vitality in our time and has attracted much welcome critical attention in recent years. The focus, however, has been on selected aspects of the epistolary tradition, to the neglect of others that are part of its rich history. At the same time, discussions of C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters (1942) have generally concentrated on its theological, moral, and satirical aspects, with little consideration of the generic identification declared in the book's title. Attention to its striking affiliations with the epistolary tradition in fiction sheds light on Lewis's artistry in the work, on current critical discourse concerning epistolarity, on Lewis's social and cultural criticism, and on his contributions to critical theory. In the present study, selected aspects of the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century epistolary tradition are briefly surveyed; then, matters of setting, plot, characterization (especially), and handling of viewpoint in The Screwtape Letters are considered, as well as its widespread debts to the literary heritage and its relationship to Lewis's own contributions as a literary scholar and critic. Attention is given to the implications of Lewis's original preface which has recently been discovered.
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Kauffman, L. S. "Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500-1850." Comparative Literature 52, no. 3 (January 1, 2000): 259–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/-52-3-259.

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Ludington, Townsend. "Epistolary Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture (review)." Biography 25, no. 4 (2002): 685–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2003.0012.

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Bray, Joe. "The Letter‐Writing Manual and the Epistolary Novel." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 47, no. 1 (March 2024): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12930.

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AbstractThe relationship between real and fictional letters in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries has been the source of much critical debate. Disagreement surrounds the extent to which the increasingly popular genre of the epistolary novel drew on the practices and techniques of actual correspondence. On the one hand are those who see epistolary fiction as developing out of real‐life letters, with some literary‐stylistic additions. On the other hand are those who reject this teleological approach in favour of one that emphasizes the functional versatility of the letter in the period, and the difficulty, if not impossibility, of drawing a distinction between its real and fictional incarnations. This relationship between real correspondence and epistolary fiction is brought into sharp focus by the genre of the letter‐writing manual, which rose sharply in popularity from the last two decades of the seventeenth century onwards. Concentrating on John Hill's The Young Secretary's Guide (1689), Thomas Goodman's The Experience's Secretary (1699), and G. F.'s The Secretary's Guide (1705), in particular, in this article, I suggest that the style of the letter‐writing manual from this period can, with caution, be compared with that of the epistolary novel. I pay particular attention to the ways in which letters in these manuals respond to and quote from each other and the often subtle ways in which they thus incorporate different voices. This polyvocality is taken further in Samuel Richardson's manual Familiar Letters (1741), which, as is well known, provided the raw material for his first novel Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded (1741). I demonstrate that some of the stylistic techniques which would prove crucial to the great epistolary novels of the later eighteenth century, including Richardson's, can be found, at least in embryonic form, in the letter‐writing manuals of the Restoration period.
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Sheehan, Rebecca Anne. "Epistolary Form and the Displaced Global Subject in Recent Films by James Benning and Jem Cohen." Área Abierta 19, no. 3 (November 4, 2019): 363–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/arab.63612.

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This essay focuses on the epistolary enunciation of recent works by two contemporary American filmmakers, Jem Cohen and James Benning, arguing for the stakes of viewing their films through an epistolary lens rather than the lenses of literary forms like the essay and the diary more commonly deployed to describe films that hug the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. Looking specifically at Cohen’s Chain (2004) and Counting (2015) and Benning’s Stemple Pass (2013) and his installation Two Cabins (2011), I show how it is the epistolary enunciation of Benning’s and Cohen’s recent work that allows them to properly explore and depict the displacement of late capitalism’s subject in an increasingly globalized world. I go on to show that through epistolary enunciation both filmmakers also tap into American Transcendentalist and Pragmatist notions of individualism and selfhood that resist the homogenizing nature of late capitalism.
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Rosbottom, Ronald C. "Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500-1850 (review)." Philosophy and Literature 24, no. 1 (2000): 230–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2000.0018.

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Whyman, Susan E. "Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500-1850 (review)." Comparative Literature Studies 38, no. 4 (2001): 372–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cls.2001.0039.

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Trouille, Mary, and Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. "Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Fiction." Eighteenth-Century Studies 25, no. 1 (1991): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2739192.

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Jolivet, Jean-Christophe. "From Socrates to Briseis: Homeric Problems and Epistolary Fiction in Heroides 3." Illinois Classical Studies 46, no. 1-2 (April 1, 2021): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/23285265.46.1.2.07.

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Abstract This paper aims to investigate the epistolary fiction in Heroides 3 in the light of ancient Homeric scholarship.1 The study of the Iliadic intertext should allow us to propose a hypothesis to identify the character who inspired Briseis's letter. By focusing on both Ulysses's strange attitude in Iliad 9 and Briseis's strange ignorance in Heroides 3, it tends to propose a new interpretation of the epistolary mode.
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Zuylen, Marina Van. "Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500-1850 (review)." Comparatist 26, no. 1 (2002): 168–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/com.2002.0028.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Epistolary fiction"

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Milligan, Simon. "Patterns of communication in epistolary fiction." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428613.

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Sharp, Krista. "The Epistolary Form| A Familiar Fiction." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10118620.

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During the 18th century, the novel was criticized for a lack of representation of reality and in turn a public distrust of fiction was established. The epistolary form addressed these issues by presenting a narrative that was bound by a real-life structure that allowed for the illusion of reality and authenticity. Today, this distrust of fiction is nonexistent but the epistolary form is still present and a frequently used literary device, providing the real-life structure for an escape from reality. However, while commercial fiction has embraced the form and moved past the historical justification of the epistolary novel, most artists’ books have not. This paper will prove how the artist book has struggled to move past the historical epistolary form and what lessons it can take from the world of contemporary commercial fiction.

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Gubernatis, Catherine. "The epistolary form in twentieth-century fiction." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1184950116.

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Brindle, Kym Michelle. "Epistolary encounters : diary and letter pastiche in neo-Victorian fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.587505.

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This thesis examines the significance of a ubiquitous presence of fictional letters and diaries in neo- Victorian fiction. It investigates how intercalated documents fashion pastiche narrative structures to organise conflicting viewpoints invoked in diaries, letters, and other addressed accounts as epistolary forms. This study concentrates on the strategic ways that writers put fragmented and found material traces in order to emphasise such traces of the past as fragmentary, incomplete, and contradictory. Interpolated documents evoke ideas of privacy, confession, secrecy, sincerity, and seduction only to be exploited and subverted as writers idiosyncratically manipulate epistolary devices to support metacritical agendas. ..iJ~1 Underpinning this thesis is the premise that much literary neo- Victorian fiction is bound in an incestuous relationship with Victorian studies. This can be identified and analysed in works that metafictionally and self-consciously engage the- nineteenth century. My study therefore examines a diverse critical awareness refracted through epistolary strategies, investigating how neo- Victorian writers collaborate with or contest critical ideologies by way of perceptual and interpretative manipulation afforded by both diaries and letters. Diary form particularly refracts reflexive critical commentary on the novel and its processes and this study consequently sustains a greater focus on diaries than letters as strategic narrative devices in neo- Victorian fiction. In five chapters, I examine five novels by writers who share a common characteristic of critical, theoretical, and academic backgrounds. Chapter one investigates how A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance (1990) employs techniques of epistolary seduction to support a critique of fictional academics who construct Victorians to fit their own critical agendas. Chapter two considers the ways in which Sarah Waters's nov el, Affinity (1999), parodically foregrounds the Foucauldian 'gaze' with two diarists and secret letters that engage critical discourses of Victorian sexualities and nineteenth-century spiritualism. Chapter three examines Alias Grace (1996) to consider Margaret Atwood's interrogation of the textual re-construction of past lives by way of a diary-style voice. Chapter four discusses Katie Roiphe's 2001 novel, Still She Haunts Me, which plays to contemporary unease about Charles Dodgson's relationship with Alice Liddell by exploiting archival gaps with invented diary entries that eulogise desire. My final chapter explores Mick Jackson's The Underground Man (1997), which interpolates a diary with 'official accounts' in a form of textual autopsy that defends personal liberty and an eccentric viewpoint against communal testimony. This study demonstrates that neo- Victorian writers use documents creatively to interrogate history and our understanding of it in diverse strategic and intertextual ways. My study is grounded in theories of pastiche and builds on Linda Hutcheon's work on historiographic metafiction. It is also informed by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, whose discussion of heteroglossia coincides with theories of diary form's dialogic double- voicedness outlined by Loma Martens's work, The Diary Novel (1985). My study investigates the intertextual processes of metafiction in neo- Victorianism as an area that has as yet received little critical attention, with no specific investigation of epistolary forms in the genre.
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Mitchell-Foust, Michelle. "The five dreams of the body /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9821345.

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Koehler, Martha J. "Paragons and parasites : narrative disruptions and gender constraints in epistolary fiction /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9438.

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Mjåvatn, Ingrid Bugge. "Widening the Envelope: Exploring variations of the epistolary genre in modern American fiction." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for språk og litteratur, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-24278.

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Garner-Mack, Naomi Jayne. "Eighteenth-century women writers and the tradition of epistolary complaint." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a4b7a20d-b36f-4657-929b-e5f375a49cd7.

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This thesis considers the presence of the epistolary tradition of female complaint in the writings of five late eighteenth-century women writers: Hester Thrale Piozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Turner Smith, Mary Robinson, and Frances Burney D’Arblay. The epistolary female complaint tradition is premised on the suggestion that readers are permitted, through the literary endeavours of male authors/transcribers, a glimpse into the authentically felt woes of women; the writers in this study both question and exploit this expectation. Often viewed by critics like John Kerrigan as a tradition that stifled female creativity, epistolary female complaint proves, this thesis argues, a lively and enlivening tradition for women writers; it provided opportunities for literary experimentation and enabled them to turn their experiences into artistic form. Five themes central to the epistolary female complaint tradition are considered: betrayal, absence, suicide, falls, and authorship. Each chapter looks at one theme and one author specifically. Chapter 1 examines the narrative of betrayal Hester Thrale Piozzi established in her journals from 1764 to 1784. Chapter 2 turns to Mary Wollstonecraft and her accounts of absence in her private letters to Gilbert Imlay, and her epistolary travel account, A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796). Chapter 3 discusses Charlotte Turner Smith’s engagement with the theme of suicide in her Elegiac Sonnets (1784) and her epistolary novel, Desmond(1792). Chapter 4 considers the strategies employed in Mary Robinson’s autobiographical, poetic, and fictional writings, which work to move beyond the moral fall the tradition implied. Chapter 5 focuses on the recurrent theme of authorial debt in Frances Burney D’Arblay’s journals, plays, and fiction. I conclude by considering Jane Austen’s appropriation of the tradition in her final novel, Persuasion (1818), and her transformation of the tradition by providing a resolution to the cause of complaint.
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Celdran, Lynn Y. "LETTERS AS SELF-PORTRAITS: EPISTOLARY FICTIONS BY WOMEN WRITERS IN SPAIN (1986-2002)." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/17.

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My study seeks to explore the interest that Spanish women authors such as Josefina Aldecoa, Carme Riera, Nuria Amat, Esther Tusquets, Marina Mayoral, Carmen Martín Gaite, and Olga Guirao have taken in the revival of epistolary fiction in recent decades. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century epistolary fiction in Spain was conditioned by social practices and by literary conventions that typically confined its heroines to an amorous plot and women authors to anonymity. I contend that if modern tradition of epistolary practices and other male-discriminatory practices kept women writers silenced or invisible in the Spanish literary world, contemporary women writers sketch themselves back into their texts. Fictional letters function as written self-portraits for them to reflect and tell their own stories, thereby creating a playful mirror effect between the fictional epistolographer and the historical author. By pushing the conventional boundaries of letter writing as a sentimental genre, contemporary women authors take liberty to rewrite female representation and to give the fictional protagonists a new voice and visibility. They revisit the theme of love in epistolary literature to explore refashioned—and often transgressive—discourses on gender, sexuality, and subject identity.
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Powers, Paula Sian. "Home economics : identity and substitutability in the eighteenth-century epistolary novel /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9901444.

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Books on the topic "Epistolary fiction"

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Amanda, Gilroy, and Verhoeven W. M, eds. Epistolary histories: Letters, fiction, culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.

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Brindle, Kym. Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137007162.

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Kauffman, Linda S. Special delivery: Epistolary modes in modern fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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Foundation, Voltaire, ed. Correspondence and epistolary fiction, La fête, Science and medicine, Voltaire. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002.

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Bower, Anne. Epistolary responses: The letter in 20th-century American fiction and criticism. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.

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Bernard, Alison. Les lettres de Benoît. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1994.

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Bochenek-Franczakowa, Regina. Le roman épistolaire à voix multiples en France de 1761 à 1782: Problèmes de forme : destinateur-destinataire. [Kraków]: Nakładem Universytetu Jagiellońskiego, 1986.

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Fraanje, Maarten. The Epistolary Novel in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Bern: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2001.

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Fraanje, Maarten. The epistolary novel in eighteenth-century Russia. Leiden: [s.n.], 2000.

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Guasp, Joan. Concert de comiat. Barcelona: Columna, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Epistolary fiction"

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Skinner, Gillian. "‘Spoken from the Impulse of the Moment’: Epistolarity, Sensibility, and Breath in Frances Burney’s Evelina." In The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine, 241–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_12.

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AbstractSkinner explores the neglected role of breath in the mapping and understanding of eighteenth-century sensibility. Thematically rich in their associations with body and spirit, life and death, breath and breathlessness are also woven into the stylistic particularities of both sentimental and epistolary fiction. Examination of the epistolarity of Evelina, and the dramatic use of dialogue Burney became known for, reveals breathlessness as the signifier of intense and instinctive moral discernment of the kind described by eighteenth-century philosophers such as Frances Hutcheson, complicating the view that the heroine of epistolary fiction more generally, and Evelina in particular, is purely passive. Instead, she emerges as actively involved in numerous scenarios that at once challenge her capacity for moral conduct and allow her to demonstrate her power to act.
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Groden, Michael. "“Please, Mr. Postman”: Joyce’s Expanding Epistolary Novel." In Joyce’s Non-Fiction Writings, 31–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72242-9_2.

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Verbaal, Wim. "Epistolary Voices and the Fiction of History." In Medieval Letters, 9–31. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.usml-eb.5.105111.

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Brindle, Kym. "Introduction: ‘Re-write, sign, seal and send’." In Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction, 3–19. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137007162_1.

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Brindle, Kym. "Diary and Letter Strategies Past and Present." In Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction, 21–35. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137007162_2.

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Brindle, Kym. "Riddles and Relics: Critical Correspondence in A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance and The Biographer’s Tale." In Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction, 36–63. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137007162_3.

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Brindle, Kym. "Spectral Diarists: Sarah Waters’s Affinity and Melissa Pritchard’s Selene of the Spirits." In Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction, 64–90. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137007162_4.

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Brindle, Kym. "A Deviant Device: Diary Dissembling in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace." In Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction, 91–117. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137007162_5.

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Brindle, Kym. "Lewis Carroll and the Curious Theatre of Modernity: Epistolary Pursuit in Katie Roiphe’s Still She Haunts Me." In Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction, 118–46. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137007162_6.

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Brindle, Kym. "Dissident Diarists: Mick Jackson’s The Underground Man and Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White." In Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction, 147–70. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137007162_7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Epistolary fiction"

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Kuzmina, Luiza, and Elena Remchukova. "RUSSIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE TEXT AS A PRECEDENT PHENOMENON OF THE MODERN MEDIA SPACE." In NORDSCI International Conference. SAIMA Consult Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/nordsci2020/b1/v3/18.

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The article is devoted to the functioning features of precedent texts in modern media discourse. Texts by F.M. Dostoevsky, namely, fiction, journalism and epistolary heritage, served as the research material. The relevance of the study is explained by the intertextual nature of the modern media space. The article shows that along with the use of Dostoevsky's precedent texts as signs of high culture, the modern media space also actively manifests the features of the postmodern cultural paradigm. The specifics of the latter include metatextuality, irony, various kinds of transformation, e.g., in headlines, which indicates their game foregrounding. Special attention is paid, firstly, to various types of intertextuality and ways of precedent phenomena foregrounding; secondly, to their use in various media areas (advertising, urban naming) and genres (interviews, internet blogs, etc.). The problem of recoding precedent phenomena is considered against the background of the use of signs of high culture as a form of reflection of modern mass consciousness in modern media communication, which is of research interest from an axiological point of view.
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