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	Epistolary novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One argument for using the epistolary form is that it can add greater realism and verisimilitude to the story, chiefly because it mimics the workings of real life.
		The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1749).
		Later in the 18th century, the epistolary form was subject to much ridicule, resulting in a number of savage burlesques.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epistolary_novel (785 words)

	Epistolary novel
		An epistolary novel is a book written using a literary technique in which a novel is composed as a series of letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used.
		Epistolary authors used the genre to formulate a range of responses to a cultural anxiety about private energies and appetites, particularly those of women, as well as to legitimate their own authorial practices.
		Thomas O. Beebee examines epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon in Europe from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century.
	www.jahsonic.com /Epistolary.html (1428 words)

	Epistolary novel
		An epistolary novel is a literary technique in which a novel is composed as a series of letters.
		In France, Laclos' Les Liasons Dangereuses used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.
		The epistolary novel slowly fell out of use in the 19th century, especially as Jane Austen popularized techniques of the omniscient narrator.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ep/Epistolary_novel.html (144 words)

	Patterson: Epistolary Corpus of Victorian Women Writers' Letters
		In designing an epistolary corpus based on material in a letter collection, certain challenges are presented by the text-type -- personal letters -- and by users of machine-readable corpora -- linguists and literary scholars.
		The challenge in designing an epistolary corpus appealing to linguists will be to identify texts with coded headings covering extra-linguisitic features, to supply supporting detailed biographical information and word counts, and to facilitate the creation of subsets including a parsed one.
		Interpretation of epistolary texts, as I indicated above, depends on entire correspondences: the writer's self is constructed and revealed in the felt presence of the absent addressee.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/chwp/patter (2525 words)

	Romancing an Oft-Neglected Stone: The Pastoral Epistles and The Epistolary Novel - Richard I. Pervo
		One advantage of the epistolary format is the avenue it provides for supplying unobtrusive judgments and reflection about the actions and characters of various persons.
		As an epistolary novel Chion appears to require readers who will be able to fill in the final page—better, readers who will know that the hero was able to satisfy his heartfelt desire, to accomplish his task and take its consequences with courage, dignity, and content.
		Epistolary fiction of the historical variety also requires both knowledge and effort upon the part of the reader.
	www.atheistalliance.org /jhc/articles/PervoPE.htm (8979 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The birth of the epistolary novel is speculated to have arisen from the French literary epistle The Portuguese Letters.
		In the epistolary novel the writer must project the internal reader of the letters into the writing so that the external reader assumes that a correspondence is taking place.
		Through the epistolary form, the reader spies on intimate aspects of the protagonist's life in the internal narrative while becoming a part of the larger external narrative that includes both the reader and writer.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~nquesinb/Nq/ad-colorpurple.htm (4345 words)

	Epistolary of Pedro de Santacilia y Pax
		The documentary fund of this extensive epistolary constitutes one of the most important sources for an understanding of the history of Mallorca in the seventeenth century.
		Forming a general epistolary, the letters, taken together, offer valuable data and unpublished aspects of the economic and political history, the relations between Mallorca and the central state, costumes of everyday life, or the state of Catalan and Spanish language in the island.
		But the epistolary also contains several letters of the Santacilia family well into the eighteenth century, and, due to their importance, they are published here without exception.
	www.studiolum.com /en/santacilia.htm (464 words)

	Epistolary Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the cases where coverage of the epistolary novel occurs as part of a larger work, the entire source is discussed.
		Epistolary novels came at a time when literacy was on the rise and they fulfilled the reading public's need for works that depicted ordinary experiences and provided moral guidance in a rapidly changing society.
		The role of epistolary literature in the development and acceptance the novel continues to be a topic of research to the present day.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~mrt25/novel.html (1185 words)

	Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500-1850 Comparative Literature - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas O. Beebee's Epistolary Fiction in Europe 1500-1850 is a vital contribution to literary history and to studies of genre and narrative.
		Beebee assesses such diverse epistolary practices as letter-writing manuals and shows how epistles serve as both catalysts and creators of all kinds of social relationships.
		He argues that one sign of the feminization of Western culture during the Renaissance is the considerable rise in the value of letters from women.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3612/is_200007/ai_n8883265 (718 words)

	Epistolary Literature: A Working Bibliography
		This is a dissertation on epistolary fictions which focus on the relationship between the way letters are presented and used in novels and the actual activities of the cuPost Office and its history.
		This is a cross between a historical fiction and genuine scholarly study and explication of the letters of Giustiniana Wynne and Andrea Memmo (18th century Venetian pair).
		Rosbottom, Ronald, "Motifs in Epistolary Fiction: Analysis of a Narrative Sub-genre," Esprit Créator, 17 (1977), pp.
	www.jimandellen.org /trollope/epistolary.biblio.html (2669 words)

	The Epistolary
		Hardly slowed down by it's wounds, the ork unleashed a storm of blows, the epistolary being hard pressed to keep the blade away from his body, until a sweep with the choppa chaught him on the left shoulder, sending him flying through the air.
		The epistolary supported himself with the force rod, making sure that none of the assorted greenskins could see how tired he really was.
		The epistolary even allowed himself a smile, when the ork and chaos forces had obliterated each other, it would prove easy for even the PDF to mop up the survivors.
	www.gargrazz.com /oddgitz/fluff/ork/km1.html (737 words)

	Epistolary novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An epistolary novel is a literary technique in which a novel is composed as a series of letters, though diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used.
		The epistolary novel was a form most popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, whose epistolary novel Pamela, considered one of the First novels in English.
		For example, Pride and Prejudice (1811) was originally written as an epistolary novel but Austen rewrote it with a third-person omniscient narrator marking, in part, the end of the era of the epistolary novel.
	epistolary-novel.kiwiki.homeip.net (411 words)

	Epistolary and Expository Interaction Patterns in a Computer Conference Transcript
		Epistolary and expository discourse types have been associated with gender in earlier research on transcripts from listservs and other unmoderated sources.
		The questions driving the enquiry were first, the degree to which the TAT was capable of describing epistolary and expository interaction patterns in a conference, and second, the degree to which the gender patterns observed in the use of these communications styles corresponded with those reported earlier.
		To summarize, the epistolary and expository tendencies of the participants observed in this study are shown in Figure 3.
	cade.athabascau.ca /vol17.1/fahy.html (4819 words)

	Dowling, W.C.: The Epistolary Moment: The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle.
		The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume.
		Epistolary audience lies, contends The Epistolary Moment, at the heart of an Augustan theory of poetry as ideological intervention, poems as symbolic acts with enormous consequences in the domain of the real.
		The emergence of the verse epistle as the dominant form in eighteenth-century poetry thus takes as its ultimate context the origins of eighteenth-century solipsism in a degraded modernity symbolized by Sir Robert Walpole and his Robinocracy, the demonic representatives of a new money or market society arising from the ruins of organic or traditional community.
	press.princeton.edu /titles/4895.html (124 words)

	Fibreculture Journal Issue 2 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These epistolary inventions are both performance and interpretation. The letter writer performs a version of self and the recipient reads that performance.
		[2] Disembodiment, as this quotation suggests, is in epistolary communication coincident with the emergence of a fantasy of bodily proximity or presence.
		The epistolary subject, so it is argued, is autonomous, has faith in authorial power, and believes that communication is the transparent exchange of thoughts from one consciousness to another.
	journal.fibreculture.org.cob-web.org:8888 /issue2/issue2_milne.html (2586 words)

	Epistolary Fiction
		Epistolary Fiction: Novels in which letters are used to tell the story
		After the death of her young husband from a brain tumor, Holly discovers 10 letters that he sent to her to help her get through the coming year and move on.
		Spanning 40 years, this novel follows Mary as she leaves Scotland for China to marry a military attaché, has a scandalous affair with a Japanese nobleman and is rejected by both cultures for her behavior.
	www.madisonpubliclibrary.org /booklists/epistolary.html (3271 words)

	MacArthur, E.J.: Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form.
		Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize correspondences, both real and fictional, reflect the preoccupations of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
		Her readings of the Lettres portugaises, Mme du Deffand's correspondence with Horace Walpole, and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Hlose propose an alternative to closure-oriented theories of narrative as they uncover an interplay between two forces: a tendency towards closure and meaning (metaphor) and a tendency towards openness and desire (metonymy).
		While such an interplay structures all narrative, the epistolary form differs from the third or first person in the extent to which metonymy predominates.
	press.princeton.edu /titles/4577.html (195 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.06.57
		As the authors of their own epistolary narratives, the women of the Heroides should exercise almost absolute power to tell their stories to their utmost self-advantage.
		This, too, L. shows to be an epistolary negotiation -- the writer's self-portraiture in letters is always conditioned by anticipatory reception, that is, what the writer thinks will be the most effective self-presentation to bring about the desired reaction in the letter's addressee.
		Pairing the Lacanian analysis of these texts with their treatment as elegy rather than with their discussion as letters seems somewhat arbitrary since the oscillation of desire created and perpetuated by letters is as basic to epistolary discourse as desire is to elegy.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-06-57.html (2488 words)

	The Body of the Letter: Epistolary Acts of Simon Hantaï, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Derrida
		Epistolary discourse has long been a site for reflecting on the paradoxical entwinement--particularly, though not exclusively, inasmuch as letters bespeak affect, passion--of bodies and words, embodied words.
		Epistolary writing is productive, or "machinic," in a Deleuzian sense; it exceeds attempts to reduce it to a function of absence, to a uni-dimensional communication circuit, or to a univocal meaning.
		The second component of the epistolary machine is the act of reading, interpretation, imbricated within the act of writing.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/issue.503/13.3NEWhayes.html (10576 words)

	Confessions of the Letter Closet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a secret communicated through private letters from one reader to another.
		Garlinger examines how the epistolary novel represents—and is implicated in—the homophobia and psychic ambivalence around sexuality and identity with which Spanish gays and lesbians struggle, despite significant legal advances and increased social tolerance.
		Addressing both male and female desire and drawing links to epistolary traditions outside Spain, Confessions of the Letter Closet goes beyond the specifics of Spanish literature to contribute more broadly to queer theory, the study of epistolary fiction, and an understanding of autobiography and confessional discourse.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/G/garlinger_confessions.html (215 words)

	Epistolary anxiety - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		That is, unless the relationship is epistolary in nature.
		The writer, or the aspiring writer, especially one who seeks to use writing like a sculptor's dremel to reshape the world as he sees fit, stands in a high place and surveys; he walks up close to the world and squeezes it roughly, impersonally, like an appraising merchant, to gain knowledge of its qualities.
		And to the extent that you're trying to use your pen, your epistolary footwork, to get over on her, you're missing the whole point.
	dir.salon.com /story/mwt/col/tenn/2004/01/22/sya_thur/print.html (689 words)

	epistolary - Definitions from Dictionary.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Being in the form of a letter: epistolary exchanges.
		Carried on by or composed of letters: an epistolary friendship.
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	dictionary.reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /search?q=epistolary (161 words)

	Epistolary novels
		I think there was a thread about epistolary novels started not so long ago but I can't find it...
		It's a single, extended letter from father to son, so I suppose it doesn't qualify as truly epistolary, but it is truly wonderful...
		There was one on Radio 4 in the mornings recently, except it was emails - Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge -perhaps that's not her name, but she was Hermione Bucket in the sitcom.
	www.writewords.org.uk /forum/65_71718.asp (595 words)

	epistolary comic books and books \| Ask MetaFilter
		I don't know about an epistolary comic book, but the Griffin and Sabine series is certainly different.
		Be My Knife (epistolary novel) by David Grossman: a man who glimpses an unknown woman at a class reunion begins a completely honest correspondance with her on the understanding that they will never meet.
		Alison Bechdel's Fun Home is not entirely epistolary -- but it does include quite a few letters, diary entries, photos, and so on.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/40283 (496 words)

	CVCO - Overbooked: Epistolary Stars
		A funny and shocking epistolary novel of modern love, told in the alternating voices of a man and a woman who spend the course of a year candidly writing to each other about their past love affairs.
		Beard's stunning debut is an epistolary novel written from 15-year-old Tess DeNunzio to her little sister Zoe.
		Inspired by a series of instructive letters written by Austen to a novel-writing niece, Letters to Alice is an epistolary novel in which an important modern writer responds to her niece's complaint that Jane Austen is boring and irrelevant.
	www.overbooked.org /booklists/lit/epistolary.html (1711 words)

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