Extravagant narratives: closure and dynamics in the epistolary form
Auteur :
MacArthur, Elizabeth Jane
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691605029
Date de publication :
14 juil. 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
435 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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