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Carroll, Katherine. "Representing Ethnographic Data Through the Epistolary Form." Qualitative Inquiry 21, no. 8 (February 24, 2015): 686–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800414566691.
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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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Mylne, Vivienne, and Elizabeth J. MacArthur. "Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form." Modern Language Review 87, no. 2 (April 1992): 465. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3730714.
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Parker, Deven M. "Epistolary Form in the Age of the Post Office." SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 59, no. 3 (2019): 625–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0028.
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DeGabriele, Peter. "The Legal Fiction and Epistolary Form: Frances Burney’s Evelina." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 14, no. 2 (2014): 22–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jem.2014.0017.
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van Eerden, Jessie. "This Present Absence: The Generative Power of Epistolary Form." Appalachian Review 48, no. 3 (2020): 98–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aph.2020.0031.
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Rogoza, Olga. "Forms Used to Convey Reported Speech in French Epistolary Novel." Studies About Languages, no. 37 (December 3, 2020): 100–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sal.1.37.24501.
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The article is focused on the study of forms used to convey reported speech in the French epistolary novel of the 18th–20th centuries. The study is based on the novels Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées by Honoré de Balzac, and Les jeunes filles by Henry de Montherlant, which are prominent examples of the epistolary novel of the respective epochs. Proceeding from duality of the epistolary novel, i.e., a combination of the form of a letter andthe genre of the novel, the French epistolary novel is defined by its special structure and composition, which determine perception of the information delivered in the novel. The form that conveys reported speech is aligned with writer’s intention. A descriptive variant of presenting dialogues prevails, while the use of direct speech in decisive moments of narration results from the pursuit of credibility. When the credibility is not more important, the reported speech is used to describe the characters and cover their characterisations. Indirect speech is used in an epistolary novel more often, but free indirect speech is virtually absent, which is explained by the absence of narrative speech that is usually interpreted via free indirect speech.
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Pardee, Dennis, and Robert M. Whiting. "Aspects of Epistolary Verbal usage in Ugaritic and Akkadian." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 50, no. 1 (February 1987): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00053179.
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In a recent brief survey in Biblische Notizen Pardee has defended the concept of an ‘epistolary perfect’ in Hebrew letters. In that survey he examined each of the usages of a ‘perfect’ verbal form (i.e. ‘suffix conjugation’ or qātat) in the extant corpus of Hebrew letters most of them extra-Biblical. Those forms which described completed acts prior to the writing of the letter were separated off from those which described aspects of the epistolary acts themselves such as ‘writing’ ‘sending’ and ‘commanding’ and the latter were termed ‘epistolary perfects’. In the present study we wish to examine the epistolary conventions observed in Ugaritic and in Akkadian. As in Pardee's previous study Ugaritic ‘perfect’ (qtt) forms and Akkadian preterite (iprus) and perfect (iptaras) forms will be examined in order to determine the conventions governing their usage in letters.
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Richards, William. "Reading Philippians: Strategies for unfolding a story." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 34, no. 1 (March 2005): 69–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842980503400104.
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Identifying different parts of the présent text of Philippians as separate letters takes the task of epistolary analysis beyond simple form criticism into the realm of narratology, for any conclusions about the composite nature of a text imply reconstructing a story of how the relationship between sender and recipient was unfolding. Using work on the discourse of epistolary novels, this study moves from a formal study of epistolary units in Philippians to examining how any compositional hypothesis (including a reading "as is") implies a more or less adequate strategy for appreciating the story of a Ist-century Macedonian community's friendship with the Christian traveler Paul.
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Brisman, Shira. "Nachrichten aus Nürnberg: The Annunciation as an Epistolary Address." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 79, no. 2 (December 30, 2016): 193–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zkg-2016-0017.
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Abstract When, around the turn of the fifteenth century, the art of northern Europe developed a pictorial motif whereby an angel delivers the news of the Incarnation in the form of a sealed document, the material properties of ink and wax metaphorically evoked the unique properties of the inscription of divine form upon Mary’s virginal body. The social impact of this communication, the dissemination of the message to a community of recipients, could be strengthened by references to the re-transmittable nature of the announcement, as enforced by other indicators of sociability detectable in different portions of the narrative scheme. The Tucher Altarpiece in Nuremberg and Michael Wolgemut’s altarpiece for the cathedral of St. Mary in Zwickau present two examples of uses of the epistolary Annunciation that may have influenced Albrecht Dürer, who employs the motif in his woodcut series The Life of the Virgin, which also contains, along with this pictorial form of broad address, more narrowly articulated messages to his contemporaries in the form of written words.
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ChoHeejeong. "The Implication of Poliphonic Discourse in the Epistolary Form: Charlotte Smith’s Desmond." English21 29, no. 2 (June 2016): 151–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.35771/engdoi.2016.29.2.008.
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Conroy,, Peter V. "Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form. Elizabeth J. MacArthur." Modern Philology 90, no. 1 (August 1992): 127–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/392045.
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Jackson, Susan K. "Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form (review)." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 4, no. 1 (1991): 85–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecf.1991.0030.
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Stroganova, N. A. "FEATURES OF CHINESE EPISTOLOGRAPHY AT AN EARLY STAGE OF ITS FORMATION." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 29, no. 6 (December 25, 2019): 997–1004. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2019-29-6-997-1004.
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The article is devoted to the consideration of writing letters - one of the oldest prose genres in the world literature. In contrast to the Western epistolary heritage, not deprived of the attention of researchers, Chinese epistolary literature and culture are still little studied areas of synology. In this article, we will find out the role that epistolography played in the life of ancient Chinese people, trace the emergence and formation of traditional Chinese epistolography, note the various types of material carriers of epistolary text, clarify the details of the process of writing and sending a letter, try to “find” the genre nature of writing, schematically denote its typological structure; we will list the most common epistolary topoi, outline the themes prevailing in letters, highlight the key function of a letter, the allegorical perception of a letter in the minds of the ancient (and not only) Chinese. The article is intended to vividly show that the fictional epistle in the form in which it originated and developed in the depths of traditional Chinese literature deserves a more detailed examination and is capable of generating interest not only among specialists, but also among a wide circle of readers.
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Norledge, Jessica. "Building The Ark: Text World Theory and the evolution of dystopian epistolary." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 29, no. 1 (January 16, 2020): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947019898379.
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Told through a series of interrelated documents (including emails, text messages, newspaper clippings and blog posts), Annabel Smith’s interactive digital novel The Ark epitomises the contemporary hybridity of the dystopian genre. Designed to be fully immersive, the story can be engaged with across media, enabling readers to ‘dive deeper into the world of the novel’ and challenge how they experience dystopian texts. Taking a Text World Theory perspective, I examine the implications of this challenge, investigating the impact of transmedial storytelling on world-building and exploring the creative evolution of dystopian epistolary more broadly. In analysing both the ebook element of The Ark and certain facets of its companion pieces (which take the form of a dynamic website and a smartphone app), I investigate the creation of the novel’s text-worlds, considering the process of multimodal meaning construction, examining the conceptual intricacies of the epistolary form and exploring the influence of paratextual matter on world-building and construal. In doing so, I offer new insights into the conceptualisation of ‘empty text-worlds’, extend Gibbons’ discussions of transmedial world-creation and argue for a more nuanced understanding of dystopian epistolary as framed within Text World Theory.
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Seara, Isabel Roboredo. "Epistolarity." Language and Dialogue 2, no. 3 (December 14, 2012): 363–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.2.3.03sea.
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The epistolary genre is considered to be an all-encompassing one insofar as it includes various epistemological approaches, thanks to the hybrid, nomadic, intricate and oxymoronic nature of the letter. This paper seeks to examine the relationship between letters and dialogue, a relationship based on the complicity and reciprocity that characterize dialogism in general. The topos of conversation is undoubtedly one of the most frequent and fruitful in epistolary writing. Letter writing has long been considered a reflection and prolongation or anticipation of face-to-face interaction. This study will try to show how conversation, as an underlying paradigm and a sort of presence-in-absence, represents a form of compensation, a consolation against the suffering stemming from distance in space and time.
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Kuzmina, Marina D. "(Auto)biographic Discourse in A.S. Khomyakovʼs Epistolary." Studia Litterarum 6, no. 1 (2021): 192–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-1-192-205.
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The article discusses autobiographical and biographical discourse in the epistolary of A.S. Khomyakov. It turns out that both, and especially the former, are underrepresented. Khomyakov steadily replaces autobiographical elements typical of the epistolary genre and thereby expected by the reader with biographical elements, almost always in the form of obituary. As a rule, those are obituaries to public figures who had left a mark in history, influenced contemporaries, and possibly descendants — what mostly interests Khomyakov as the author. Paying primary attention to personal qualities, the scope and degree of self-realization of these qualities, he almost never covers external, factual side of their lives. Thus, the epistolary includes, on the one hand, paradoxical elements of the obituary and the biographical genre without a typical biographic narrative, while on the other hand, a highly individualized version of the obituary, a genre that, at a time, seemed to have hopelessly exhausted itself and become clichéd.
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Anossova, Oksana. "FANNY BURNEY’S EPISTOLARY ROMANTICISM AND BLOGGING." SWS Journal of SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ART 1, no. 1 (July 23, 2019): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/ssa2019/issue1.04.
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Fanny Burney at 15 wrote in her diary addressing her thoughts to ‘Nobody’, to her silent ‘self’ and interlocutor. Nobody learnt about this fact until her diaries were published. She became famous with her first epistolary novel about a young lady entering the world, though in the Preface to the novel the author pretended to be an editor of the letters. Her writing could be compared to contemporary blogs. Novelty and variety of subjects, personally coloured irony and wit, acute eyesight, ability to entertain a reader with an unusual insight of the ordinary event or situation (e.g., ‘Directions for Coughing, Sneezing, or Moving Before the King and Queen’), a dramatist talent to create dialogues and remember speaker’s intonation and other speech parameters, a lot of short fragments imprinting emotions and restoring the epoch in diaries and letters, - everything features her style and specifies her as a Romanticism writer. Some of the subjects could be accepted as obsolete though regarding different situations, circumstances and the performance the given descriptions of the royal household politely discussed by the Keeper of the Robe to Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, and a close acquaintance of British famous actor David Garrick (1717-1779) and even world-known painter Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) some of the episodes described in diaries could be praised for their author’s dramatic playwright talent. Blogging in its well-written form, the one possessing style and distinguishing good literature characteristics, could be compared to diaries reflecting every instant of modern life and becoming immediately public. Freedom of female voice in Romantic era and freedom of mass-media writer and reader on the verge of Millennium are manifested in both epochs
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Lander, Dorothy A., and John R. Graham-Pole. "Love Letters to the Dead: Resurrecting an Epistolary Art." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 58, no. 4 (June 2009): 313–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/om.58.4.d.
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This article explores the art of letter-writing, specifically to our beloved dead, as a form of autoethnographic research, pedagogy, and care work. As university teachers and qualitative researchers in palliative and end-of-life care, we review the literature and history of epistolary communications with the deceased, as a prelude to writing our own letters. John writes to his long-dead mother and Dorothy to her recently deceased spouse Patrick, each letter followed by a reflective dialogue between us. Through this dialogue, we highlight the potential application of this art, or handcraft, to formal and informal palliative care, and the implications for practice, pedagogy, policy, and research. We propose that such direct, non-mediated, communications can offer a valuable form of healing for bereaved people. The therapeutic potential of letter writing and the abundance of literary and popular culture exemplars of responses from the dead are also largely unexplored in death education and research.
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N’Guessan, Kouadio Germain. "“You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy ”: The Violence of Language in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple." Human and Social Studies 4, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 72–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/hssr-2013-0040.
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Abstract Alice Walker’s The Color Purple dramatizes African American women’s plight through the experience of a black girl, Celie, caught in the turmoil of the patriarchal system of her community. Leaning on the epistolary form and also choosing to address the black woman’s oppression first within the black community itself, the author detaches herself from the mainstream African American literary tradition to create a personal style. One of the characteristic traits of the novel is language as a communicative tool in the characters’ interrelation. In the narrative, this tool is mostly used to oppress the female protagonists, demonstrating thus its violent aspect. But sometimes, even though very rarely in the novel, it helps the oppressed subject to claim a voice. Finally, the epistolary form serves to create more emotion in the readers and consequently produces more reaction in them.
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Vázquez-Novo, Vanesa. "“The long roads to forgotten regretted nostalgias”: Traumatic Wounds in the Letters of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, no. 25 (2021): 91–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ren.2021.i25.05.
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When twenty-five-year-old Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald asked her husband Scott Fitzgerald to resume her ballet lessons, he saw no objection to it. Fitzgerald thought the lessons would keep Zelda busy while he focused on his novel Tender is the Night (1934). Little did he know then that strenuous dancing rehearsals would lead Zelda to her first mental breakdown. While confined at several mental institutions from 1930 to 1948, Zelda used the epistolary form in an attempt to move from victim to artist. It is through her letters to Scott Fitzgerald that we discover her inner struggles and her longing for a career of her own. This article analyzes a selection of Zelda Fitzgerald’s letters in order to determine whether the epistolary form allows Zelda to overcome or perpetuate her traumas while confined at several mental institutions.
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Bell, Erin. "Happy objects and cruel optimism in Carson McCullers’ story ‘Correspondence’." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 9, no. 2 (October 1, 2019): 117–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00005_1.
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This article discusses American author Carson McCullers’ 1942 short story titled ‘Correspondence’, in order to consider how the unique form of the epistolary short story amplifies themes of alienation and absence. Drawing upon contemporary affect theory as well as a close reading of the story, I consider how the letters in the text can be understood as what Sara Ahmed describes as ‘happy objects’, as well as how the process of letter writing becomes exemplary of Lauren Berlant’s theorization of cruel optimism. Based on her own disappointment with letters and letter writing, McCullers’ short text problematizes the act of writing letters and demonstrates the complexities of epistolary short fiction.
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Testsov, Sergei Valentinovich. "T. Smollett’s Epistolary Novel ‘The Expedition of Humphry Clinker’." Interactive science, no. 6 (52) (August 20, 2020): 78–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.21661/r-551511.
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This article provides a brief analysis of Tobias Smollett’s ‘The Expedition of Humphry Clinker,’ which is considered to be his best novel. Similar episodes and literary portraits had been featured in his previous works, but the epistolary form, used exclusively in this novel, contributed to lively and extremely convincing characters, as well as vivid and picturesque descriptions.
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Leonard, Emelen. "Perversions of the Epistolary Instinct: Desire and Form in the Letters of Philostratus." TAPA 150, no. 1 (2020): 115–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apa.2020.0000.
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DAVIES, S. F. "Review. Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form. MacArthur, Elizabeth J." French Studies 45, no. 3 (July 1, 1991): 320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/45.3.320.
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Kuzmina, Marina D. "The most “personal” genre of Old Russian literature." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 59 (2021): 161–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2021-59-161-173.
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The paper attempts to identify the originality of epistolary genre against the background of other genres of Old Russian literature, which, as is known, was characterized by the interaction of genres, genre synthesis. The message stands out against the general background as the most “personal” genre. It articulates quite clearly the situation of communication of, as a rule, two specific personalities — addresser and addressee. It is thereby very targeted and situational, focused on the needs and goals of participants in the epistolary dialogue. It more or less actualizes the images of both communicants. The author of the letter enjoys freedom in choosing the self-characteristics and characteristics of the addressee, in choosing the forms of addressing the latter as well as choosing the composition of the text, etc. However in reality the “personality” of the epistolary genre is reserved and rather arbitrary. Addressers to addressees, widely varying in the whole body of messages, differ, in essence, only in form. In content, they are synonymous. They carry not so much personal as depersonalized, transpersonal characteristics, usual for ancient Russian literature, reflecting social situation, spiritual relations of the participants in correspondence (spiritual father / spiritual child, etc.), etc. They reflected in their own way the requirement of etiquette of epistolary communication established in the era of antiquity and involving complementarity of appeals to the addressee. Thus, the “personality” of the message, on the one hand, ensured its organic inclusion in the system of genres of ancient Russian literature. On the other hand, it allowed him to preserve and develop characteristic features that distinguished the epistolary genre from antiquity and could provide him with a future at a time when the genre system would lose its synthetics, each of them would have to defend its right to autonomy; but at the same time, “personality” was fraught with a danger of exclusion of the epistolary genre from literature.
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Alekseeva, Lubov V. "Topical Issues in Publishing the Letters of F. M. Dostoevsky and His Correspondents." Неизвестный Достоевский 7, no. 1 (March 2020): 184–284. http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/j10.art.2020.4542.
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The article provides an overview of the editorial principles in publishing F.M. Dostoevsky’s epistolary heritage. An analysis of these principles allows to discuss the evolution of goals and objectives of the researchers involved in the preparation of Dostoevsky’s and his correspondents’ letters for publication. At the same time, this review reveals the problems that the researchers have encountered and continue to face for over 130 years of studies of the writer’s epistolary heritage. The literary value of Dostoevsky’s letters was recognized immediately after his death. They aroused interest both as a biographical source and as part of the writer’s literary heritage. A significant number of letters to A. E. Vrangel, A. N. Maykov, N. N. Strakhov, I. S. Aksakov and others were published as early as in the 1880s. Particular attention was heeded to Dostoevsky’s correspondence with readers, writers, editors, and journalists. The first publications of Dostoevsky’s letters did not pursue any scientific goals and presented them as part of the writer’s creative heritage. Many problems associated with the systematization of correspondence, search for manuscript autographs, lost or undiscovered letters, principles of publication of epistolary sources have already emerged at that time. In the 1920—1930s, the researchers, still focusing on Dostoevsky’s letters, turned to his addressees’ letters, which began to be recognized as an integral part of the correspondence. The corps of letters of certain correspondents were set apart, specific epistolary cycles were formed, mutual correspondence began to be published, and a gradual mastering of its historical, cultural and commentary potential commenced. The emerging trends were subsequently developed. Principles that included the completeness of presentation of correspondence, precision of reproduction of handwritten text, and a scientific and critical approach to the study and publication of the letters came to the fore. Despite the significant successes achieved by the researchers, many problems of publishing Dostoevsky’s correspondence are still relevant, for example, structuring the letters in an integral manner. At present, the publication of the writer’s epistolary heritage and the letters of his correspondents sets the task of publishing a complete annotated code of correspondence both in print and in an electronic form. The electronic publication format has certain advantages, as it expands the number of manuscript material presentation modes and, in turn, the chance for researchers to further study Dostoevsky’s epistolary heritage and the writer’s life and work as a whole.
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Howe, Anthony. "Lamb, Coleridge, and the Poetics of Publication." Romanticism 26, no. 3 (October 2020): 245–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2020.0475.
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This essay explores the poetics of Lamb's early letters to Coleridge. I argue for a sharp awareness, on Lamb's part, of the potentially negative effect publication can have on literary writing. Lamb resists this at the level of epistolary form, by entwining his sonnets with the letters into which he writes them. Where Lamb's poems, taken in themselves, remain modest performances, the letter-poem hybrid texts in which they participate are of significant critical interest. Among other things they establish a critique of Coleridge and his paying court to the literary marketplace. These insights, I go on to suggest, can also help us to understand both writers’ more mature work, notably the complex lyric-epistolary compound that is Coleridge's ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’.
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Tkachivsky, V. "German Epistolary Heritage Of Ivan Franko And Its Dominant Features." Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University 2, no. 2-3 (July 2, 2015): 115–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.2.2-3.115-121.
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The epistolary heritage of Ivan Franko contains over six thousand letters. Germanepistolary correspondence addressed to Vienna, Berlin, Budapest, Heidelberg, Freiburg, Stanislav,Chernivtsi. The author of the article analyzes also the response letters sent to I. Franko. His firstletters in German were addressed to Olha Roshkevych. They were written under the strongimpression that the epistolary novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther” by J.W. von Goethe had hadon I. Franko. The Ukrainian writer’s correspondence with H. Kanner and I. Singer the editors of theweekly newspaper “Zeit” is an evidence of their close cooperation. I. Franko had close professionalties with V. Adler one of the founders and leaders of the Austrian social-democratic party, theeditor of Vienna newspaper “Arbeiterzeitung”, as well as with V. Adler’s wife Emma. I. Franko’scorrespondence with a prominent Slavic scholar V. Yagic didn’t contain only private mattersdiscussions. The third part of it is totally scientific which actually makes it valuable for researchers.I. Franko’s epistolary works reflect his artistic writer’s style neither in form nor in content. Hisletters are characterized by the depth of his thought, consistency of his statements, clearness of thesentence constructions, tendency to critical assessments of phenomena and scientific findings.
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Sheffer, Jolie A. "Interracial Solidarity and Epistolary Form in Precarious Times: Karen Tei Yamashita's Letters to Memory." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 76, no. 4 (2020): 55–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arq.2020.0024.
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MANDER, J. S. "Review. The Letter Form and the French Enlightenment: The Epistolary Paradox. Howland, John W." French Studies 51, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/51.1.76.
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Botha, Phil J. "EPHREM THE SYRIAN’S FICTITIOUS USE OF THE EPISTOLARY FORM IN HIS “FIRST DISCOURSE FOR HYPAṬIUS”." Scrinium 6, no. 1 (March 22, 2010): 32–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18177565-90000036.
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Bohdan, Svitlana. "About «Тілько» and not only in Lesіa Ukrainka’s language creation: in search of idiosyncrasy." Culture of the Word, no. 93 (2020): 100–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.37919/0201-419x-2020.93.8.
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The article elucidates the regularities of the use and functioning features of the lexemes til’ko and til’ky in Lesya Ukrainka’s autographs and published epistolary and poetic texts. The study, using the comparative analysis approach, proves that both lexemes have the status of variants and are fixed in the similar semantic contexts. The actualization of the lexemes in the usus of the Ukrainian language confirms that they are polysemantic by nature and grammatically heterogeneous. The case study has revealed a clear quantitative dominance of using the variant til’ko in autographs. But the form has been repeatedly corrected, mostly in the epistolary texts. The study of the twelve-volume edition of Lesya Ukrainka’s works confirms the statement. Although we come across the use of the lexeme til’ko in the poetic texts, such facts are less frequent and reveal the general tendency of editors to replace the lexeme, arguing the need to avoid this variant, most obviously, due to classifying it as dialectal and atypical in the speech of a person who ought to serve a model of modern literary language. Epistolary texts of the nearest relatives of the Kosachs and Drahomanovs families have been also used in the case study to determine the organicity or, on the contrary, the accidental presence of the lexeme til’ko in the vocabulary of Lesya Ukrainka. It favorably authenticated the naturalness of its use. The key findings of Lesya Ukrainka’s epistolary and poetic microcontexts comparison, both author’s and edited, argue that proofreading not only changes but, in fact, destroys the authentic text, distorts the individual style, and hinders the research process. We are to restore these features in modern editions of Lesya Ukrainka’s works and offer the scholars a genuine, rather than ‘retouched’, individual style of the author.
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Thoburn, Nicholas. "Twitter, Book, Riot: Post-Digital Publishing against Race." Theory, Culture & Society 37, no. 3 (January 16, 2020): 97–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276419891573.
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This article considers today’s ‘post-digital’ political publishing through the material forms of an experimental book, The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary. Anonymously published and devoid of all editorial text, the book is comprised entirely of some 650 screen-grabbed tweets, tweets posted by black Baltimore youth during the riots that ensued on the police killing of Freddie Gray. It is a crisis-ridden book, bearing the wrenching anti-black terror and rebellion of Baltimore 2015 into the horizon of publishing. Drawing on critical theories of books and digital media, and bringing Saidiya Hartman and Frank Wilderson to bear on issues of publishing, the article appraises seven aspects of this book’s materiality: its epistolary structure and rupture with the book-as-closure; its undoing of the commodity form of books; the ‘poor image’ of its visual scene; its recourse to facial redaction and voiding of narrative progression; and its destabilization of readers’ empathy.
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Love, Kimberly S. "Too Shame to Look:1 Learning to Trust Mirrors and Healing the Lived Experience of Shame in Alice Walker's The Color Purple." Hypatia 33, no. 3 (2018): 521–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12430.
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This article investigates the role of shame in shaping the epistolary form and aesthetic structure of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. I argue that the epistolary framing presents a crisis in the development of Celie's shamed self‐consciousness. To explain the connection between shame and Celie's self‐consciousness, I build on Jean Paul Sartre's theory of existentialism and explore three phases of Celie's evolution as it is represented in three phrases that I identify as significant transitions in the text: “I am,” “But I'm here,” and “It mine.” The first section examines how shame fractures Celie's self‐consciousness; the second focuses on how Celie positions and locates herself in the world; and the third explains how Celie mobilizes shame by connecting her self‐consciousness to a past that is shameful but also generative. I conclude by considering the novel's emergence in the Cosby/Reagan era in order to illuminate the mutual constitution of black familial pride and black racial shame.
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Banfield, Stephen, and Harvey Ironbridge. "The Ironbridge Letters A Socratic Dialogue in Epistolary Form Concerning the Musical Theater and Its Anatomy." American Music 10, no. 1 (1992): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3052144.
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Essop, Ghazala Begum. "“Thrusting the Private into the Public Sphere”: North African Women's Writing Identities in the Epistolary Form." Journal of Literary Studies 32, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 105–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2016.1158990.
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González Montes, Antonio. "Vallejo y España (1925-1938)." Archivo Vallejo 1, no. 1 (November 29, 2018): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.34092/av.v1i1.22.
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En este artículo nos proponemos destacar las estrechas relaciones que Vallejo mantuvo con España, en términos históricos, literarios, antes de su viaje a Europa y durante su permanencia en el Viejo Mundo. Rastrearemos las fases de su contacto con España, primero en forma epistolar y luego con su presencia personal en la península, durante la cual estrechó lazos con autores españoles, publicó algunos libros y textos y llegó a comprometerse con la causa de la República Popular y creó su gran poemario España, aparta de mí este cáliz (1939).
ABSTRACTThis paper intends to highlight the close relationship between Vallejo and Spain, in historical and literary terms before his trip and during his stay in the Old world. We track the periods of his contact with Spain, first in epistolary form and then with his presence on the peninsula, where he strengthened ties with Spanish authors, published some books and texts, and came to commit himself to the ideals of the República Popular (Popular Republic) and created his great book of poems España, aparta de mí este cáliz (‘Spain, Let This Cup Pass From Me’) in 1939.
Keywords: Vallejo, Spain, epistle, literature and poetry.
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Shevchenko, Larysa. "A Linguist's Reminiscences to Identification Theory: Epistolary of Panteleimon Kulish. Article 2." Actual issues of Ukrainian linguistics: theory and practice, no. 39 (2019): 8–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/apultp.2019.39.8-20.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the complex process of evolution of Panteleimon Kulish's worldview. Panteleimon Kulish was a polyphonic personality who left in the history of the Ukrainian culture the heritage of a writer, publisher and translator. P. Kulish's epistolary and creative work are investigated in the categories of E. Erickson's theory, which has become an intellectual matrix for understanding the processes of a subject's development in certain psychosocial conditions and circumstances. In E. Erickson's theory of identification the article analyses the epistolary of Panteleimon Kulish – an outstanding Ukrainian culturologist, publisher, writer and translator. The author states that E. Erickson's theory created the intellectual matrix of a person's development analysis in the system of psychosocial conditions and circumstances. The scholar studies E. Erickson's main postulate, namely the correlation of a personality with psychosocial identity. The stages of evolution of P. Kulish's national self-consciousness (from assertion of slavophilе positions in his youth to evolutionary extension of the author's worldview) are considered. Accordingly, the dominant of the artist's Ukrainian-centricity, enrichment of his worldview with European ideas, ideals, cultural facts and, as a consequence, a formed outlook with understanding of the identification perspective of the nation in European history and culture are analyzed. The major problem in the analysis of P. Kulish's creative person is the problem of ethnic identification. The article explores the criteria of P. Kulish's ethnic identification: existential choice, ways of self-realization, achievement of internal freedom, solving individual-psychological problems of belonging to a certain social strata, realization of a person's powerful intentions in the national language. The analytics of the article is based on P. Kulish's epistolary that is a representative form of the author's communication with the leading writers and public figures of the Slavic world in the middle of the 19th century. The epistolary enables to build a panorama of ideas and concepts that have been developed by intellectuals in the context of analyzing the problem of national identity.
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Ungelenk, Johannes. "Werthers verbriefte Liebe." arcadia 52, no. 1 (May 24, 2017): 116–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2017-0007.
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AbstractThe article re-reads Werther’s legendary love with Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. It discovers a constitutive dimension of address and (postal) transfer that not only shapes Werther’s love, but also connects it to the often neglected form of the epistolary novel. Werther’s love is not tragic, and it is not all about Lotte – it is postal. Writing and loving share the constitutive dimension of addressing ‘the other’: distance does not indicate love’s failure; it turns out to be its productive principle. Werther’s love is thus not a ‘warning example,’ not the moral message of a tale – it exhibits and affirms the way modern love works. Anticipating psychoanalytic insight, love does not take place between two specific human beings, but circulates in a complex system of shifting addressees. The readers become involved in this postal system: the epistolary novel also addresses this love to us. Will we really ‘not be able to withhold [our] admiration and love’ as the editor tells us at the very beginning of Werther’s story? However – we seem to be the perfect match – as philo-logists...
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Kuzmina, Marina D. "Message from Fedor Karpov to metropolitan Daniel and the scribe “The beginning of the messages...”: to the question of the interaction of the letter and the scribe in Old Russian literature." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 1 (January 2021): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.1-21.036.
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The article raises the question of the interaction of ancient Russian scribes and individual samples of the epistolary genre. A connection is established between the message of Fedor Karpov to Metropolitan Daniil and the scribe “The beginning of the messages...”, created, like the mentioned message, in the 16th century. Both the message and the scribe actualize the intention of business writing, teaching message and secular friendly writing. The first introduces a respectful and complementary tone (the addressee is lower than the addressee), the second — the educational one (the addressee is higher than the addressee), the third is actually friendly (they are “equal”). This allows Fedor Karpov to flexibly conduct an epistolary conversation with the correspondent: to attract him to himself, to inspire confidence, then, already having this trust, contrast his point of view with his own and present it as authoritative, finally, boldly affirm the “equivalence” of both points of view. This is a completely secular, humanistic position inherent to Fedor Karpov, a secular man, a diplomat, one of the early Russian Europeans. He begins to speak with Metropolitan Daniel in the language familiar to Metropolitan Daniel, in the traditions of ancient Russian epistolary communication: he self-abases and exalts his interlocutor, introduces the antithesis “addressee-sinner / addressee-righteous”. His correspondent is characterized as was done in the scribbler “The beginning of the messages...” through his high position, wisdom, enlightenment, purity and beauty of the soul, metaphors of flowering, fragrance and light. Myself — by the principle of contrast. Introduces, like the author of the scribe, the traditional medieval motif of sailing and the image of the ship, raises the question of “helmsman”. But if in the scribe, which focuses mainly on the epistolary communication of the subordinate with the boss and the establishment of relations, promotion on the career ladder, the boss was given the honorary role of «helmsman», then in the message of Fedor Karpov the aforementioned motive and image are reinterpreted in a secular way. The point is that for monks the path lies to the heavenly harbor and “helmsman” is Christ, while the secular man “swims” in the earthly world and hardly needs a “helmsman”, he chooses the path. Supporting his judgments with quotes from the Holy Scriptures (strictly selected and arranged in the text, of course, exactly as the author needs it), Fedor Karpov remains in the Old Russian tradition, approved by the scribe for the epistolary genre. But he is not limited to this tradition. Quotes from ancient literature are adjacent to quotes from the Holy Scriptures in the epistle to Metropolitan Daniel, and the judgment of Aristotle turns out to be much more authentic for Fedor Karpov than, say, the apostle Paul. Thus, from a sphere close to the addressee, the author transfers epistolary communication into his sphere. This secular quotation plan was completely absent from the scribe, but the scribe, offering users, in accordance with the title, only the “beginning” of the messages, provided great opportunities for experimentation. Fedor Karpov, to whom the European individual beginning was so dear, could not help but use them. Based on the scribe, he created, on the one hand, a modern, flawlessly “correct” letter written “according to the rules of rhetoric”, as befits an educated person, and on the other hand, a letter that is very independent, very personal, reflecting his personality. However, there is a likelihood of feedback: perhaps the scribe did not form the basis of the creative experiment of Fedor Karpov, but the epistolary text of Karpov formed the basis of the scribe.
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Gregersen, Sune. "“Hver Gang Jeg Skriver En Roman” – Metafiktive Former Og Indstillinger I Inger Christensens Azorno." Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia 23, no. 1 (December 1, 2017): 60–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fsp-2017-0007.
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Abstract The paper presents an analysis and discussion of the Danish writer Inger Christensen’s experimental novel Azorno from 1967. It is argued that the novel, which is partly in epistolary form, can be read as a literary objet trouvé, a found manuscript consisting of a struggling writer’s unfinished notes and documents. I then attempt to characterise the novel using the typology of metafictional forms and attitudes proposed by Gemzøe (2001), and point out a number of potential problems with this typology.
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Rybakov, Roman V. "Socio-Political Identity of Youth in the 1920s Epistolary Heritage." Herald of an archivist, no. 1 (2020): 72–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2020-1-72-86.
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The article is devoted to the problem of studying Soviet identity in the 1920s. The object of the research is letters of youth from the fonds of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI). Epistolary heritage is an important source for studying daily life of the young generation, their inner world. The content of the letters with their assessments and characteristics of the moment allows scientific understanding of socio-political identity of the young people, their value orientations and moral ideals, and also answer the question of the effectiveness of identification processes in the 1920s. There is great discrepancy in terminology and approaches, when discussing “identity” in modern humanities. The author proceeds from classical understanding of “identity” as awareness of unity, of “identification” as a set of mechanisms and means of consolidation. In the 1920s the authorities used traditional means of printed and oral propaganda to form Soviet identity. Susceptibility of the youth to the official ideology was higher than that of the adult population, which facilitated nurturing of the generation of loyal Bolsheviks supporters united in a single organization, the Komsomol. The found sources confirm that the youth readily assumed the role of the main builder of the socialist society. However, most letters in addition to devotion to the propagated ideals offered some alternative assessments and opinions. The 1920s everyday life was wrought with socio-economic contradictions. According to the author, the subjectively experienced identity often did not coincide with that propagandized officially. Individual identity of the young was built gradually through dialectical interaction of external identification imposed by the authorities and self-identification rising from personal experience. Discrepancy between realities and expectations brought disappointment and resulted in a crisis of the emerging socio-political identity.
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Choy, Renie. "Seeking Meaning Behind Epistolary Clichés: Intercessory Prayer Clauses in Christian Letters." Studies in Church History 48 (2012): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400001200.
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The letter, as the format of twenty-one of the twenty-seven documents in the canonical New Testament, is arguably the literary form which has played the most significant role in the history of Christianity. But scholars have often been troubled by how to treat the conventions framing Christian letters: since little of Christian literature from its earliest time to the medieval period escapes the influence of classical traditions of rhetoric, can constant epistolary formulas be taken as expressions of genuine sentiment? In fact, it is precisely because the lines between classical influence and Christian innovation are so difficult to make out that E. R. Curtius was able to argue that the humility formula of medieval charters, for so long assumed to have originated in Paul, was in fact a pagan Hellenistic prototype like scores of other rhetorical conventions. His study of the formula serves, Curtius writes, to ‘furnish a warning against making the Middle Ages more Christian or more pious than it was’, and to demonstrate that ‘a constant literary formula must not be regarded as the expression of spontaneous sentiment’. So the entrenchment of rhetoric in letter-writing is often set in opposition to genuine Christian feeling, commonplace utterance against living expression, empty verbiage against religious sincerity.
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Ilyina, Anastasia. "Letters of the Christian intellectual: Alcuin and his epistolary heritage." INTELLIGENTSIA AND THE WORLD, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 96–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.46725/iw.2020.4.7.
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The article examines the epistolary legacy (numbering more than three hundred letters) of Alcuin of York, perhaps the most prominent figure of the so-called Carolingian Renaissance, a famous associate of Charlemagne. Comparison of Alcuin’s letters with samples of late antique epistolography makes it possible to trace the degree of continuity of cultural and social practices of pagan Antiquity and the Christian Middle Ages. In addition, reference to Alcuin’s correspondence makes it possible to look into the inner world of a Christian intellectual, to get acquainted with the issues and problems that occupy the minds of his contemporaries, to build a scheme of Alcuin’s network communication and to understand how far his spiritual influence extended in Europe and with which social layers he communicated. Setting the goal of identifying the characteristic features of the Christian intellectual community at the turn of the VIII—IX centuries on the basis of the analysis of Alcuin’s epistolary heritage, the author of the article defines the social and geographical boundaries of the circulation of Alcuin’s letters, identifies the succession of his letters from the ancient epistolary tradition, identifies and analyzes the main problems raised in Alcuin’s letters. To achieve this goal, the article uses a historical and anthropological approach with elements of semiotic analysis. The succession of Alcuin’s correspondence from the traditions of late antique epistolography is reflected, first of all, in the form of letters, the way they were written, and the use of stable rhetorical techniques. At the same time, attention is drawn to the change in the social portrait of the address and, due to this, the expansion of the circle of addressees, which now includes not only representatives of the highest secular and church elite, but also nsufficiently educated and ignoble people, for whom Alcuin acted as a spiritual father and mentor. The analysis of the letters shows that Alcuin’s awareness of his responsibility for the fate of the addressees determines the subject matter of the letters, many of which are devoted to explaining the responsibilities of certain members of the Christian community, defining the area of responsibility of the laity and clergy, constructing of the image of an ideal clergyman or a righteous layman.
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Kretov, Alexey, and Sergey Churikov. "Four Poems by A.V. Koltsov on A.S. Pushkin’s Death." Izvestia of Smolensk State University, no. 1 (53) (April 12, 2021): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2021-53-1-20-32.
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The article substantiates the need to supplement the canonical corpus of A.V. Koltsov’s poems with three poetic works, which are contained in the poet’s letterto A.A. Krayevsky, a publisher, and dedicated to the death of A.S. Pushkin. One of these works is presented in the specified epistolary text in a standard verse form, while the other two have a prose design. The authors propose a re-construction of these two poems based on the principle of minimal interference in the content with graphic ordering of the form. The article shows that A.V. Koltsov’s poems reconstructed and restored in their rights are connected with other works not only within the poet’s artistic world, but also within Russian literature with individual images, catchwords, and motives.
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Goldsby, Jacqueline. "“Something is Said in the Silences”: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Years at Harper’s." American Literary History 33, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 244–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab007.
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Abstract This essay draws upon Gwendolyn Brooks’ 49-year correspondence (1944–93) with her editor Elizabeth Lawrence to trace the “publishing knowledges” that Brooks gleaned during her mid-20th-century career with the US firm Harpers & Brothers. First and foremost, their correspondence richly details Brooks’s growth as an experimental poet with a mainstream commercial firm. The aesthetic sociality of their editorial debates fostered also allowed them to explore personal and political intimacies; in this dimension, their correspondence (both the letters’ contents and epistolary form) sheds light on how Brooks and Lawrence navigated the shoals of race, gender, and liberalism in the notoriously patriarchal corporate culture of mid-20th-century US publishing. Finally, the arc of Brooks’s relationship with Lawrence at Harper’s charts is how US publishing transformed from its corporate to conglomerated forms. Taken together, these epistolary threads not only weave African American poetry into the literary history of an era-defining institutional realignment but also they demonstrate how Brooks’ and Lawrence’s cross-racial solidarity and commitment to an anti-corporate poetics comprise a continuum between Brooks’s career in mainstream US publishing and her later years in the Black independent press in the late 1960s. [P]ublishing at Harper’s was a shrewd, tactical choice [that] . . serve[d] Brooks’s evolving ideologies about art and politics.
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Ramanathan, Vaidehi. "Silencing and Languaging in the Assembling of the Indian Nation-State: British Public Citizens, the Epistolary Form, and Historiography." Journal of Language, Identity & Education 8, no. 2-3 (April 30, 2009): 203–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15348450902848874.
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Jolly, Margaretta. "A Word is a Bridge: Death and Epistolary Form in the Correspondence of Sylvia Townsend Warner & David Garnett." Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society 8, no. 1 (December 1, 2007): 18–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444.stw.2007.05.
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Obatnina, Elena, and Anna Uryupina. "Alexey Remizov. “At the Evening Dawn”. A chapter from the manuscript; Letters to S.P. Remizova-Dovgello. 1925." Literary Fact, no. 15 (2020): 42–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2020-15-42-114.
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The authors continue to introduce into scientific circulation chapters from A.M. Remizov's manuscript “At the Evening Dawn”, which form a series of publications devoted to the émigré period of the writer’s life and work. The main part contains Remizov’s letters to S.P. Remizova-Dovgello for 1925, which in 1945–1948 were edited by the author and included in the planned book. The Appendix contains original letters of the same period. Such a juxtaposition of a particular chapter with its primary sources opens up the prospect of exploring motivations that guided the writer in creating autobiographical works in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The corps of epistolary documents for 1925 contains information related to Remizov’s position in the literary environment of Parisian emigration, his friendly and professional contacts, and also reveals unknown facts of the creative and publishing history of his works. The publication is accompanied by detailed comments based on previously unknown archival materials which supplement the history of the Russian Diaspora. Historical and literary surveys of the authors made it possible to introduce significant refinements into the biographical data, for example, of the writer’s young friends G.S. Kireev and Yu.D. Doreomedov, and into the chronology of the writer’s life and work as a whole. Keywords: Russia Abroad, Russian émigré literature, Alexey Remizov, Serafima Remizova-Dovgello, “At the Evening Dawn”, epistolary sources.