Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture - Couverture rigide

Simon, Sunka

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ISBN 10 : 0791453499 ISBN 13 : 9780791453490

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2002

Synopsis

Explores contemporary uses of letters and letter writing--including electronic mail--in literature, film, and art.

While the advent and structure of electronic mail has been discussed in web caucuses, newspapers, hypertext theory, and communication theory, it has not yet been considered in conjunction with epistolary scenarios in film, art, and literature. To address this gap, Mail-Orders explores the status of the epistolary form at the end of the twentieth century and its connections to feminist criticism, literary theory, and postmodernism. One of the first works to consider electronic mail in relation to the history of epistolary fiction, Mail-Orders concerns itself with individual letters, as well as fiction written in letter form, and widens the debate on the often postulated "death of letters" by considering the epistolary connections between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries' systems of communication and representation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sunka Simon is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791453499
• ISBN 13: 9780791453490
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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