Dissertations / Theses: 'Epistolary form'

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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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Jolly, Margaretta. "Everyday letters and literary form : correspondence from the Second World War." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360528.

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Patterson, Katharine Bassett. "A communicative approach to the epistolary form in letters of Victorian women writers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1995. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ28147.pdf.

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Vincent, Tonja S. "From Epistolary Form to Embedded Narratological Device: Embedded Epistles in Austen and Scott." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6444.

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The perception that the epistolary form was rejected by novelists during the Romantic Era has largely been accepted by scholars. However, in looking at the period's two most prominent authors, Walter Scott and Jane Austen, we see that the epistolary form remained vibrant long after its supposed demise. Throughout their careers, both Austen and Scott employed embedded letters as a tool to create authenticity. Both Austen and Scott use what I call "literary letters" to create a sense of realism in their novels that contributed to the rise of the novel. Scholars often claim that Austen eschewed the epistolary form with Lady Susan and solidified her rejection by revising both Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice from epistolary novels to third person narration. But a careful examination shows that Austen followed Richardson's tradition with Lady Susan, that Sense and Sensibility was not originally written in epistolary form, and that Austen retained sixteen critical letters in Pride and Prejudice. In fact, Darcy's five-page letter to Elizabeth signals Austen's continued reliance on the form as it completely changes the dynamics of the novel and transforms Elizabeth from a static protagonist to a dynamic heroine. Further indication that Austen found value in the form is seen in her later and often considered more mature novels, Emma and Persuasion, where she found innovate ways to turn the epistolary form into an embedded narratological device. The value of letters in Scott's novels is often overlooked. For instance in Heart of Midlothian, Jeanie Down's claim that letters cannot feel is often cited as an argument that oral testimony is more valuable than written, yet it is a letter that ultimately gets her an audience with the queen. In fact, in both Heart of Midlothian and Redgauntlet, Scott explains the legal implications of the written testimony, its preference over oral testimony, and its power in persuading both in and out of court. And in Guy Mannering, Scott relies on embedded letters to develop important plot points including the identity of the lost heir, create believable characters, and explore the conflict between Scottish traditions and law. And although Redgauntlet is often considered the moment Scott eschewed the epistolary form, the way he employs letters to create the illusion that his characters are authentic historical figures helps him explore notions of national identity.

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Lundegård, Karin. "Bränn mitt bref! : En poststrukturalistiskt inspirerad studie av författaren Marianne Lundegård-Hagbergs utträdande ur historien." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77317.

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Abstract This thesis discusses and analyses a 19th century female author's vanishing from history. The study investigates social relationships as figured and described in the epistolary form, based on letters between the author herself and different members of her family. It also tries to identify the author's position and situation in her time and society according to important themes and motifs in her novels. The main purpose is not to reconstruct history, but rather to show the many complex histories that can also be described, apart from the simplified and generalized one. The aim of this study is to, from a post-structuralist perspective, analyze the position of author Marianne Lundegård-Hagberg, and her role as a performative, discursive person that history forgot.

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Kafala, Maram. "Le rôle d'Amédée Pichot dans l'implantation d'idées littéraires anglaises en France de 1825 à 1850." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100135.

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Notre travail examine le processus de l'implantation de nouvelles idées littéraires anglaises en France au XIXe siècle. La personnalité à laquelle est consacrée cette étude est Amédée Pichot. La question principale qui se pose ici est la suivante : quelle est l'importance de cet écrivain dans le développement de la littérature française dans une époque dominée par de grands écrivains comme Chateaubriand, Hugo, Lamartine, Stendhal et beaucoup d'autres ?C'est à travers l'étude de trois grands axes de sa carrière littéraire que nous allons essayer de montrer ce qu'un écrivain mineur comme Amédée Pichot a apporté à la littérature française. Son ouvrage, intitulé Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse, publié en 1825, son rôle comme journaliste et directeur de différentes revues littéraires et ses travaux dans le domaine de la traduction sont les points principaux que nous allons aborder pour montrer comment il a enrichi la littérature française en révélant aux écrivains de nouveaux aspects de la littérature anglaise
Our work examines the process of the establishment of new ideas of English literature in France in the XIXth century. The essential personality of this study is Amédée Pichot. The main question that arises here is the following: what is the importance of this writer in the development of French literature in an era dominated by other major writers, such as Chateaubriand, Hugo, Lamartine, Stendhal and many others?It is through the study of three parties of his literary career that we want to emphasize what a minor writer as Amédée Pichot can do to improve the French literature. His book, entitled Voyage historique et littéraire en Angleterre et en Écosse, published in 1825, his role as a journalist and director of various literary journals and his great efforts in the field of translation are the principal axes which will reveal to us up to what point it was able to participate in enriching the French literature by new aspects of English literature

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Chauvel, Thaïs. "O harém das Cartas persas: um concerto de vozes dissonantes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8146/tde-07122018-120146/.

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A presente dissertação apresenta uma leitura das Cartas persas, de Montesquieu, centrada na análise do chamado romance do serralho, conjunto temático correspondente à intriga do harém abandonado na Pérsia. O estudo busca mostrar em que medida a trama oriental das Cartas persas adquire mais densidade após a primeira publicação da obra, em 1721, enfatizando sua importância para a reflexão de cunho político-filosófica que Montesquieu desenvolve em sua obra. A proposta é demonstrar de que maneira o romance do serralho constitui uma crítica ao despotismo e como ele representa dois regimes de poder distintos que se sobrepuseram a partir do século XVIII. Levando em consideração a complexidade do dispositivo epistolar posto em prática por Montesquieu em suas Cartas persas, propõe-se, ainda, compreender o papel das diferentes personagens que integram o sistema polifônico do harém, com o intuito de depreender o alcance de sua significação para a obra.
The present dissertation intends to provide an analysis of Montesquieus Lettres persanes focused in the so-called romance of seraglio, a set of themes which correspond to the dispute of the abandoned harem in Persia. This study proposes to show how the oriental plot of Lettres persanes attains greater density after the first publication of the oeuvre, in 1721, highlighting its importance to the political-philosophical reflection developed by Montesquieu in his oeuvre. The proposal aims to demonstrate the way the romance of seraglio constitutes a critic to despotism and how it represents two different power regimes which overlapped since the 18th century. Taking into consideration the complexity of the epistolary device concocted by Montesquieu in his Lettres persanes, this study also aims to understand the role of its various characters which integrate the polyphonic system of the harem, with the intention of fathom the reach of its significance to the oeuvre.

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Fowler, Steve Allen. "A layman's guide for preparing expository messages from epistolary literature." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 1995. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Cheng, Oi Man. "Model missives : epistolary guidebooks for women in early twentieth century China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2012. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1466.

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Solow, Y. "The Bendithion chronicles : an epistolary tale in a variety of literary forms." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683059.

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Messmer, Marietta Elisabeth. "I have a vice for voices, reconstructing Emily Dickinson's epistolary subject positions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq22920.pdf.

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Brant, C. "Eighteenth century letters : Aspects of the genre, with reference to the epistolary novel and the familiar letter of personal correspondence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381768.

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Tillman, Kacy Dowd. "The epistolary salon : eighteenth and nineteenth century letter writing as a vehicle for female authorship /." Full text available from ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=1800301751&SrchMode=2&sid=11&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1258490937&clientId=22256.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Mississippi, 2008.
Typescript. Vita. Major professors: Jaime Harker and Jay Watson "December 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 220-231). Also available online via ProQuest to authorized users.

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Franco, Sandra Coelho. "O biografema na biodiagramação da obra literária e epistolar de Monteiro Lobato." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14833.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:59:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Coelho Franco.pdf: 1288224 bytes, checksum: d70bb2841c3aa82635307e4209bd4faf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-16
This essay is aimed to study Biografema as the only possible and basic element of the traditional biography, defined as a distinct biodiagram feature which is the biography of the Brazilian writer called Monteiro Lobato. The Chapter I deals with the Biografema concept and the biodiagram process since Roland Barthes conception, starting from the difference of the style and the writing of his displacements . It centralizes the subject of the writing that is not shown in the body and it is brought back by the benefit of the language-body. The Chapter II clarifies the Biografemática reading concept and its analogical relations on the textual practice. This feature can be seen in ¨A Barca¨ by Gleyre, and in ¨Memórias da Emília by Monteiro Lobato where the childhood and childlike concept is mentioned. In the Chapter III we discuss the epistolary and literary style for children which has been studied and interpreted by Biodiagramação where the memory and the oral roles emphasize Monteiro Lobato s linguistical work and new style. This new style is shown on metalinguistical references of A Barca by Gleyre, and the memorial references of Memórias da Emília . In the Conclusion we emphasize Lobato s valuable contribution through his work A Barca by Gleyre and Memórias da Emília that send us to the exceptional biographical text, the Creative Biography, developed through the author s life language and world conception which lead to a language and a literature design (view)
Esta dissertação analisa o biografema como um possível elemento unitário e básico da biografia tradicional, definido como traço distinto de um biodiagrama, que é a biografia em si, do escritor brasileiro Monteiro Lobato, apresentado em um córpus único e cronológico onde registra as marcas de sua oralidade, criando um discurso que o próprio autor denominou conversa em mangas de camisa. O Capítulo I trata do conceito de biografema e biodiagramação, a partir da concepção de Roland Barthes, da diferença que entremeia o estilo e a escritura e seus deslocamentos. Centraliza o sujeito da escrita ausente em seu corpo e resgatado pela fruição no corpo-linguagem. O Capítulo II aclara o conceito de leitura biografemática e de suas relações analógicas na prática textual, distinção caracterizada em A Barca de Gleyre e em Memórias da Emília de Monteiro Lobato e, nelas, os conceitos de infância e infantil. No Capítulo III tratamos do gênero epistolar e literário infantil, em estudo interpretativo pela biodiagramação. Nela, o papel da memória e da oralidade destaca o trabalho lingüístico e o ¨novo estilo¨ de Lobato. A prova deste estilo é apresentada nas remissivas metalingüísticas de A Barca de Gleyre e remissivas memorialistas de Memórias da Emília. Na conclusão, destaca-se a valiosa contribuição de Lobato, que por meio das obras A Barca de Gleyre e Memórias da Emília, remete-nos à singularidade do texto biográfico, a Biografia Criativa, revelada pela linguagem da vida do autor e sua concepção de mundo, traçando um panorama da língua e da literatura

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Hobisch, Elisabeth [Verfasser]. "La forma epistolar en los espectadores españoles : Características y tipología de las cartas / Elisabeth Hobisch." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1138919675/34.

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Doig, Katherine. "Correspondances avec l'absence : la fiction épistolaire monologique aux XXe et XXIe siècles." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA127.

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La fiction longue entièrement composée d'une lettre ininterrompue – le roman (ou la pièce) épistolaire monologique – représente un cas de figure négligé, souvent même refusé, par la théorie. Son existence est démontrée ici par un corpus de quinze textes en anglais, français, italien et allemand, de Gide (1902) à Norman (2011) via Yourcenar, Coetzee, Celestini, ou Amis.Ce travail mesure dans un premier temps les dimensions de cet inventaire : sa largeur, grâce à la mise en place d'un cadre formel ; sa longueur historique ; la profondeur de ses interactions avec la lettre réelle, le genre épistolaire, et enfin avec les qualités épistolaires de toute fiction, dont la lettre monologique est un miroir aux déformations calculées.Le corpus révèle l'intérêt de ce cadrage technique grâce à des thèmes récurrents, qui interrogent trois caractéristiques-clé de l'écriture épistolaire. Le thème de la mort de soi (Yourcenar, Coetzee, Bernstein, Robinson, Amis) se conjugue à une réflexion sur la structure physique de tout texte que la lettre rend soudainement tangible, établissant une réflexion sur la lettre-cadavre. Une imagerie apocalyptique (Auster, Coetzee, Amis) problématise ensuite cette idée de la lettre qui se résumerait comme manifestation physique de la mort de l'auteur ; il met en scène un portrait de la temporalité qui ouvre à des superpositions et des rencontres. Ces deux chapitres établissent les pôles du débat pour un dernier, qui emprunte l'imagerie du double pour parler de la communication épistolaire (Gide, Coetzee, Bernstein, Celestini). Après l'absence et la correspondance, ce chapitre interroge le problématique “avec” du titre ; le plan narré de la lettre et le plan dramatique de son envoi sont rejoints par un troisième, pragmatique, posant la question de l'éthique de la correspondance épistolaire, et à travers elle, l'éthique de la fiction même
Long fictions composed of one uninterrupted letter – monologic epistolary fictions – are underrepresented in critical discourse, and frequently shunted more or less overtly beyond its margins. Their existence is brought to light here by one play and fourteen novels in French, English, Italian and German, ranging from 1902 (Gide) to 2011 (Norman) via a cast of authors including Yourcenar, Coetzee, Amis and Celestini.This study aims firstly to fill the critical lacuna, establishing the dimensions of this new sub- genre. It measures the breadth of the formal definitions of the single-letter epistolary novel, the length of its inscription in literary history, and the depth conferred upon it by critical discourse about real letters, the letter-novel genre and a certain epistolary quality to be found in all literature, which our novels set themselves up to reflect and refract.Our rather disparate corpus of texts reveals the interest of this technical framework, haunted as it is by recurrent themes which illuminate the characteristics of monological epistolary writing. Firstly, the theme of one's own death (Yourcenar, Coetzee, Bernstein, Robinson, Amis) shines a light on the physical structure of any text, rendered visible in the format of the letter; this conjunction suggests the idea of the text as corpse. A series of apocalyptic universes complicates this rather empirical portrait, which reads like the symbol of the Death of the Author; novels by Coetzee, Amis and Auster use complex portraits of fictional time to suggest the possibility of coincidence, overlap, meetings both epistolary and literary. These two chapters set up the terms of a final debate concerning literary communication, investigated via the symbol of the double (Gide, Coeztee, Bernstein, Celestini). After the narrative of the text itself and the implied drama of the letter's trajectory, a pragmatic dimension comes to light. This final analysis allows us to investigate the ethics of correspondence, and the letter as one key to understanding those of fiction itself

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Chiou, Tim Yi-Chang. "Romantic posthumous life writing : inter-stitching genres and forms of mourning and commemoration." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a316a0f-7365-4555-8bc8-9e09b47ec674.

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Contemporary scholarship has seen increasing interest in the study of elegy. The present work attempts to elevate and expand discussions of death and survival beyond the ambit of elegy to a more genre-inclusive and ethically sensitive survey of Romantic posthumous life writings. Combining an ethic of remembrance founded on mutual fulfilment and reciprocal care with the Romantic tendency to hybridise different genres of mourning and commemoration, the study re- conceives 'posthumous life' as the 'inexhaustible' product of endless collaboration between the dead, the dying and the living. This thesis looks to the philosophical meditations of Francis Bacon, John Locke and Emmanuel Levinas for an ethical framework of human protection, fulfilment and preservation. In an effort to locate the origin of posthumous life writing, the first chapter examines the philosophical context in which different genres and media of commemoration emerged in the eighteenth century. Accordingly, it will commence with a survey of Enlightenment attitudes toward posthumous sympathy and the threat of death. The second part of the chapter turns to the tangled histories of epitaph, biography, portraiture, sepulchre and elegy in the writings of Samuel Johnson, Henry Kett, Vicesimus Knox, William Godwin and William Wordsworth. The Romantic culture of mourning and commemoration inherits the intellectual and generic legacies of the Enlightenment. Hence, Chapter Two will try to uncover the complex generic and formal crossovers between epitaph, extempore, effusion, elegy and biography in Wordsworth's 'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835-7) and his 'Epitaph' (1835-7) for Charles Lamb. However, the chapter also recognises the ethical repercussions of Wordsworth's inadequate, even mortifying, treatment of a fellow woman writer in his otherwise successful expression of ethical remembrance. To address the problem of gender in Romantic memorialisation, Chapter Three will take a close look at Letitia Elizabeth Landon' s reply to Wordsworth's incompetent defence of Felicia Hemans. Mediating the ambitions and anxieties of her subject, as well as her public image and private pain, 'Felicia Hemans' (1838) is an audacious composite of autograph, epitaph, elegy, corrective biography and visual portraiture. The two closing chapters respond to Thomas Carlyle's outspoken confidence in 'Portraits and Letters' as indispensable aids to biographies. Chapter Four identifies a tentative connection between the aesthetic of visual portraiture and the ethic of life writing. To demonstrate the convergence of both artistic and humane principles, this cross-media analysis will first evaluate Sir Joshua Reynolds's memoirs of his deceased friends. Then, it will compare Wordsworth's and Hemans's verse reflections on the commemorative power and limitation of iconography. The last chapter assesses the role of private correspondence in the continuation of familiar relation and reciprocal support. Landon's dramatic enactment of a 'feminine Robinson Crusoe' in her letters from Africa urges the unbroken offering of service and remembrance to a fallen friend through posthumous correspondence. The concluding section will consider the ethical implications for the belated memorials and services furnished by friends and colleagues in the wake of her death.

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Stejskalová, Anna. "Podoby autobiografických forem. Přestupný rok - Disiecta membra - Let let." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-348923.

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This doctoral thesis is concerned with autobiographical forms, their general characteristics as well as with three examples of Czech works of art that prove how difficult it is to make that general characteristics and show various kinds of autobiographical narrative. It aims to show the often heterogeneous character of the so- called autobiographical genres, and present some approaches in their study. In the opening chapter, we define the term autobiography or autobiographical form in regard to literary history and theory, and special attention to Czech research in this field. We concentrate on the genre specifics of autobiographical forms, the opposition of "literary" and "authentic" diary, the term "autobiographical pact" coined by Philippe Lejeune and several patterns of autobiographical memory introduced by James Olney. The key aspect of our study is the nature of autobiographical form derived from the subject's style and illocutionary acts, i. e. stylization as defined by John Searle followed by Jean Starobinski or Paul de Man. Out of the wide spectrum of issues connected with autobiography we focus on the description of the subject's narrative structure, mainly on its language, style, frequent motifs, its memory and relationship to other characters in its text. The complexity of the very...

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Pčola, Marián. "Za hranicami fikčného rozprávania." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-329158.

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My thesis examines the nature of contemporary fictional narration and explores its relations to other types of narration - mainly texts where educational or informative function prevails over the aesthetic one. The whole work is divided into four parts. The first part is theoretical; it sets up basic areas of interest and names methods, tools and models that will be tested on selected examples from Slavonic literatures. The second part analyses spatial and temporal relations of fictional narrative. Chapter 2.1 treats time and space in a novel mostly from the compositional point of view (based on the example of Sasha Sokolov's A School for Fools), while in the next chapter, focusing on ideational interconnections between literary and social- political utopias, both fictionality and temporality are understood more broadly than mere narrative categories: they serve as certain points of connection between the immanent occurrence of meaning in the "world of text" and its historical background. The third part continues in this direction, only what we mean by context here is not the collective historical background, but an individual sphere of everyday life. Our focus switches to two genres standing on the boundary of literary fiction and non-fiction - personal correspondence and a travel journal (travelogue). The...

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