Special Delivery Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction

Name: Special Delivery Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction
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ISBN: 9780226426815

ISBN-10: 0226426815

ISBN-13: 9780226426815

Edition: 1991

Authors: Linda S. Kauffman, Catherine R. Stimpson

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Though letter writing is almost a lost art, twentieth-century writers have mimed the epistolary mode as a means of reevaluating the theme of love. In Special Delivery, Linda S. Kauffman places the narrative treatment of love in historical context, showing how politics, economics, and commodity culture have shaped the meaning of desire. Kauffman first considers male writers whose works, testing the boundaries of genre and gender, imitate love letters: Viktor Shklovsky's Zoo, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, and Jacques Derrida's The Post Card. She then turns to three novels by women who are more preoccupied with politics than passion: Doris Lessing's The…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 0.70" wide x 0.92" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Prologue


List of Abbreviations



Producing Woman



From Russia with Love


Zoo, or Letters Not about Love Historical Background and Theoretical Coordinates


Generic Reaccentuation and Innovation inZoo Shklovsky's Addresses


Dialogic Contestation The Production of Woman Elsa Triolet's Letters inZoo



Framing Lolita


Is There a Woman in the Text? Episolarity inLolita Literature as Social Change or Aesthetic Bliss Reading Dialogically


Lolita's Other Analogues Is There a Woman in the Text?



Dangerous Liasons: Roland Barthes's


A Lover's Discourseand Jacques Derrida's


The Post Card The Production of the Text The Deconstruction of Story and Plot


The Deconstruction of Character and Identity The Role of the Addressee


The Production of Woman Feminist Critiques of Barthes and Derrida



Women's Productions



The Golden Notebook


Anna Wulf's Schizoanalysis Sexuality, Sexual Politics, and the Displacement of Identity


Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents Global Politics and the Social


Genesis of Psychosis Lessing's Critique of the Realistic Novel



Constructing Otherness: Struggles of Representation in


The Color Purple Epistolary Precursors Slave Narratives as Generic Predecessors Constructing Otherness by Gender and Tribe Walker's


Vision of History and Utopia Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple



Twenty-first Century Epistolarity in


The Handmaid's Tale Masculine


Writing/Feminine Speech


Atwood's Episolary Antecedents Docile Bodies


An Anatomy of Ideology


Epilogue


Index