Author: Jeroen Pieter Lamers
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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A treasure trove of diplomatics and epistolary stylistics from late 16th- and early 17th-century Japan

Author: Jeroen Pieter Lamers
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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A treasure trove of diplomatics and epistolary stylistics from late 16th- and early 17th-century Japan

Author: Godfrey Frank Singer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512806986
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author: Thomas O. Beebee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521622752
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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This book explores epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon across Europe from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.

Author: Friedrich Booch-Arkossy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Antonia Sarri
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110423480
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 485

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Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.

Author: Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521800048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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A comprehensive look at the use of imaginary letters in Greek literature, first published in 2001.

Author: Carol Poster
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036514
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Poster and Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume, they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials - from Isocrates to email - that form the basis for its study.

Author: Willemijn Ruberg
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Egodocuments are cherished because of the view they supposedly provide into the innermost feelings of individuals in past and present. Recent research, however, has shown the complexity of genres like autobiographies, diaries and letters. Building on critical and historical research into autobiographical writing, this book describes epistolary practices of the Dutch elite in the period 1770-1850. Analysing how cultural ideals of sincerity, individuality and naturalness influenced the style and contents of letters, the book also addresses the functions of letter writing in family life, like the formation of an adolescent identity and the relationship between parents and children. Correspondence was a vital means by which class and gender identities were performed and the appropriate emotions were shaped.

Author: Anne Bower
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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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. 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.