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Modernism (Literature) --- Spanish American literature --- Spanish literature --- Letters in literature. --- History and criticism --- Letters as a theme in literature --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- History and criticism.

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Epistolary fiction, German --- Letters in literature --- Letter writing in literature --- 82-31 --- Letters as a theme in literature --- 82-31 Roman --- Roman --- German epistolary fiction --- German fiction --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- German literature

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This collection of essays is devoted to last letters : letters sent - or not - to sever a relationship, to mark the end of a phase in one's life, or letters written by people about to be executed or commit suicide just before their deaths. Conversely, some of the letters analysed are fictional, and still other forms of texts, such as poems, are considered ultimate messages by the authors of the articles. By focussing on various forms of last letters, the contributors aim to define the influen...

Last letters before death --- Imaginary letters --- Letters in literature. --- Suicide in literature. --- Letters --- Letter writing --- Death, Last letters before --- Farewells --- Correspondence --- Biographical sources --- Literature --- Letters as a theme in literature --- History and criticism. --- History.

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Art historians, biographers, and other researchers have long drawn on Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence—more than eight hundred letters—for insights into both his personal struggles and his art. But the letters, while often admired for their literary quality, have rarely been approached as literature. In this volume, Patrick Grant sets out to explore the question, “By what criteria do we judge Van Gogh’s letters to be, specifically, literary?” Drawing, especially, on Mikhail Bakhtin’s conceptualization of self-awareness as an ongoing dialogue between “self” and “other,” Grant examines the ways in which Van Gogh’s letters raise, from within themselves, questions and issues to which they also respond. Their literary quality, he argues, derives in part from this “double-voiced discourse”—from the power of the letters to thematize, through their own internal dialogues, the very structure of self-fashioning itself. Far from merely reproducing the narrative of the artist’s personal progress, “the letters enable readers to recognize how necessary yet open-ended, constrained yet liberating, confined yet unpredictable, are the means by which people seek to shape a place for themselves in the world.”This volume builds on Grant’s earlier analysis of Van Gogh’s correspondence, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh: A Critical Study (AU Press, 2014), a study in which he approached the letters from a literary critical standpoint, delving into key patterns of metaphors and concepts. In the present volume, he provides instead a literary theoretical analysis of the letters, one that draws them more fully into the domain of modern literary studies. In his deft and keenly perceptive reading, Grant deconstructs the binaries that surface in both Van Gogh’s writing and painting, discusses the narrative dimensions of the letter-sketches and the recurring themes of fantasy, belief, and self-surrender, and draws attention to Van Gogh’s own understanding of the permeable boundary between words and visual art. Viewing the letters as an integrated body of discourse, “My Own Portrait in Writing” offers a theoretically informed interpretation of Van Gogh’s literary achievement that is, quite literally, without precedent.

Letters in literature. --- Gogh, Vincent van, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Letters as a theme in literature --- Fan-kao, --- Fan-ku, --- Fan'gao, --- Fangu, --- Fangu, Wensheng, --- Gogh, Vincent-Willem van, --- Van-Gog, Vint︠s︡ent, --- Van Gogh, Vincent, --- גוך, וינסנט ואן, --- ビンセントゴッホ, --- ゴッホ, --- 梵高, --- letter-sketches --- Terry Eagleton --- modern literary theory --- modern literary studies --- Mikahil Bakhtin --- Vincent van Gogh --- Van Gogh, Vincent

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Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature of epistolary fiction and criticism in letter form from a largely feminist perspective. While most scholarly work to date has focused on 17th- and 18th-century manifestations of this genre, Bower's study concentrates on epistolary fiction by contemporary American writers published between 1912 and 1988. The novels discussed, all featuring women letter writers, include: Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies, John Barth's LETTERS, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, John Updike's S., Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs, Upton Sinclair's Another Pamela

Letters in literature. --- Criticism --- Epistolary fiction, American --- American fiction --- American epistolary fiction --- Letters as a theme in literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- United States --- Letters in literature --- Epistolary fiction [American ] --- Smith, Lee --- Barth, John --- Walker, Alice --- Updike, John --- Webster, Jean --- Sinclair, Upton Beall --- Castillo, Ana