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Epistolary responses : the letter in 20th-century American fiction and criticism

Author: Anne Bower
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Letters - a most traditional and old-fashioned form of discourse - continue to offer special opportunities for writers and readers in the postmodern era. Bower explores the way letters shape the act of writing and writing as act.
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Bower, Anne.
Epistolary responses.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1997
(OCoLC)605966146
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anne Bower
ISBN: 0817308369 9780817308360
OCLC Number: 34113667
Description: xiv, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. Epistolary Fiction: Space to Respond --
3. Fair and Tender Ladies: Letters as a Response to Absence, Presence, and Property --
4. "Help! Love me! I grow Old!": The Central Role of Germaine Pitt in John Barth's LETTERS --
5. Restoration and In-gathering --
The Color Purple --
6. John Updike's S.: Gender Play --
7. Delettering: Responses to Agency in Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs --
8. Relettering: Upton Sinclair's Another Pamela Responds to Samuel Richardson's Pamela --
9. Remapping the Territory: Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters --
An "Epistolary Fix": Dear Reader, Once Again --
10. Epistolary Responses to the Critical Act.
Responsibility: Anne Bower.

Abstract:

Letters - a most traditional and old-fashioned form of discourse - continue to offer special opportunities for writers and readers in the postmodern era. Bower explores the way letters shape the act of writing and writing as act.

Epistolary Responses uses a variety of theoretical approaches (chiefly feminist and reader response) to analyze seven novels, all featuring women letter writers: Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters, Upton Sinclair's Another Pamela, John Updike's S., Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies, and John Barth's LETTERS (in which six men also write letters, but the central and most original epistolarian is female). Punctuated with various letters - from novel authors and critics - Epistolary Responses enacts some of the give and take of the subject matter and provides some sense of the collective or composite textuality.

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