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Tanović, Una. "Letters to nowhere." When Dialogue Fails 12, no. 1 (March 7, 2022): 72–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.00112.tan.

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Abstract In her study of epistolarity and world literature, Bower (2017) observes that letters “travel easily” and so are an obvious form for writing about migration and transnational dialogue. From another perspective, however, the epistolary may contain an empty promise: letters, after all, are sometimes waylaid or mislaid, unsent or undeliverable. This paper investigates the epistle and epistolary conventions in two short stories by US migrant writers – Edwidge Danticat’s “Children of the Sea” (1993) and Aleksandar Hemon’s “A Coin” (1997) – in which dialogue across national borders is made impossible under extreme political circumstances. I argue that Danticat and Hemon undermine the dialogic writing that is a basic generic epistolary convention to caution against ignoring asymmetries of power in situations of forced migration.
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Pardee, Dennis, and Robert M. Whiting. "Aspects of Epistolary Verbal usage in Ugaritic and Akkadian." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 50, no. 1 (February 1987): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00053179.

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In a recent brief survey in Biblische Notizen Pardee has defended the concept of an ‘epistolary perfect’ in Hebrew letters. In that survey he examined each of the usages of a ‘perfect’ verbal form (i.e. ‘suffix conjugation’ or qātat) in the extant corpus of Hebrew letters most of them extra-Biblical. Those forms which described completed acts prior to the writing of the letter were separated off from those which described aspects of the epistolary acts themselves such as ‘writing’ ‘sending’ and ‘commanding’ and the latter were termed ‘epistolary perfects’. In the present study we wish to examine the epistolary conventions observed in Ugaritic and in Akkadian. As in Pardee's previous study Ugaritic ‘perfect’ (qtt) forms and Akkadian preterite (iprus) and perfect (iptaras) forms will be examined in order to determine the conventions governing their usage in letters.
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Pawlak, Matthew. "Is Galatians an Ironic Letter?" Novum Testamentum 63, no. 2 (March 17, 2021): 249–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341694.

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Abstract This article queries whether Paul wrote Galatians with reference to epistolary conventions for ironic letters. First, the author explores the use of the θαυµάζω + conjunction “epistolary formula” in the non-literary papyri to determine the relationship between this expression, irony, and Gal 1:6. Then, he weighs the evidence for an ironic reading of Gal 1:6 itself before turning to the extant ancient letter writing handbooks to assess the extent to which Gal 1:6 meaningfully parallels the ironic letters in the handbooks. The author argues that while an ironic reading of Gal 1:6 is plausible, there is no evidence that Paul has crafted Galatians with reference to epistolary conventions for ironic letters.
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Eriks Cline, Lauren. "Epistolary Liveness: Narrative Presence and the Victorian Actress in Letters." Theatre Survey 60, no. 2 (April 10, 2019): 237–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557419000061.

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In an influential essay on the place of autobiography in theatre history, Thomas Postlewait puts Fanny Kemble's memoirs at the crux of a historiographical problem. The literary sensibility of Kemble's work appears to Postlewait an instance of both the theatrical memoir's cultural richness and its limitations as biographical evidence: although Kemble's “epistolary mode of self-representation” gives her autobiography Records of a Girlhood “a documentary quality,” for example, even her “earliest letters reveal a calculated literary style” that signals her awareness of the “traits and conventions” of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels. In her consciousness of narrative trends, Kemble stands out as a particularly clear example of a general tendency in theatrical autobiographies of the period. As the nineteenth century's booming print market expanded the audience for stories about theatregoing, it also drew readers who were increasingly familiar with novelistic experiments in plotting, characterization, and point of view. This shared audience encouraged an exchange of discursive conventions across fictional and historical narratives, which makes memoirs a compelling but complicated source of historical data about nineteenth-century theatre. Indeed, the two-way influence between genres is so strong that Postlewait argues scholars “need to ask to what extent these autobiographies exist not only as historical records but as epistolary fictions.”
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Weima, Jeffrey A. D. "Paul's Large Letters: Paul's Autographic Subscriptions in the Light of Ancient Epistolary Conventions." Bulletin for Biblical Research 27, no. 3 (January 1, 2017): 436–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/bullbiblrese.27.3.0436.

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Choy, Renie. "Seeking Meaning Behind Epistolary Clichés: Intercessory Prayer Clauses in Christian Letters." Studies in Church History 48 (2012): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400001200.

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The letter, as the format of twenty-one of the twenty-seven documents in the canonical New Testament, is arguably the literary form which has played the most significant role in the history of Christianity. But scholars have often been troubled by how to treat the conventions framing Christian letters: since little of Christian literature from its earliest time to the medieval period escapes the influence of classical traditions of rhetoric, can constant epistolary formulas be taken as expressions of genuine sentiment? In fact, it is precisely because the lines between classical influence and Christian innovation are so difficult to make out that E. R. Curtius was able to argue that the humility formula of medieval charters, for so long assumed to have originated in Paul, was in fact a pagan Hellenistic prototype like scores of other rhetorical conventions. His study of the formula serves, Curtius writes, to ‘furnish a warning against making the Middle Ages more Christian or more pious than it was’, and to demonstrate that ‘a constant literary formula must not be regarded as the expression of spontaneous sentiment’. So the entrenchment of rhetoric in letter-writing is often set in opposition to genuine Christian feeling, commonplace utterance against living expression, empty verbiage against religious sincerity.
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Tingley, Stephanie A. ""A Letter Is a Joy of Earth ": Emily Dickinson's Letters and Victorian Epistolary Conventions." Emily Dickinson Journal 5, no. 2 (1996): 202–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/edj.0.0171.

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Beier, Benjamin V. "Ethos and the historical More in the letter to Brixius." Moreana 56 (Number 212), no. 2 (December 2019): 176–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/more.2019.0060.

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This essay reconsiders More's letter to Brixius. It uncovers early modern understandings of self-fashioning/ethos and epistolary conventions of the period, and with these contexts, it rereads More's self-presentation or ethos-development in the letter. The essay argues that More's ethos in the letter highlights an authentic facet of himself and, thereby, gives us a glimpse of the historical More who, in the Brixius moment, is angry, but not excessively or habitually, as has sometimes been claimed.
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De Toni, Francesco. "Expressing friendship in letters: Conventionality and sincerity in the multilingual correspondence of nineteenth-century Catholic churchmen." Multilingua 39, no. 1 (January 28, 2020): 33–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/multi-2018-0133.

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AbstractThe relationship between the polite and conventional nature of friendly language and the sincerity of the writer’s feelings is a central topic in linguistic and historical research on friendship in epistolary communication. This relationship can be understood in the context of the emotional values and conventionalised emotional practices that characterise the writer’s emotional community.The language of friendship has a significant role in the history of letter writing in religious communities. However, epistolary and emotional practices among religious groups in the modern era remain a rather unexplored filed of research. In this regard, the nineteenth century is of particular interest, as it saw the consolidation of sincerity as a central notion in European standards of letter writing.Bringing together historical pragmatics and the history of emotions, this paper describes the forms and functions of sincerity in the negotiation of friendships between nineteenth-century Catholic churchmen. The article analyses a corpus of letters in Italian and Spanish from the multilingual correspondence of European Benedictine missionaries in Australia between the 1850s and the 1890s. The results of the analysis show that sincerity and emotional self-disclosure, while dependent on the pragmatic conventions of letter writing, belonged to cross-linguistic cultural scripts typical of religious communities.
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Rutkowska, Małgorzata. "Pleasure and Instruction: Generic Conventions in Emma Hart Willard’s Journal and Letters, from France and Great Britain." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 28/1 (September 20, 2019): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.28.1.04.

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The purpose of the present paper is to analyse epistolary and descriptive conventions in Journal and Letters, from France and Great Britain (1833) by Emma Willard. The article argues that Willard attempts to combine the standards of 18th-century travelogue with its emphasis on instruction with a new type of autobiographical travel narrative which puts the persona of a traveller in the foreground. In this respect, Willard’s Journal and Travels, for all its didacticism, testifies to an increasing value attached to subjective experience, which was to become one of the distinguishing features of nineteenth-century travel writing.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Epistolary conventions"

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Gordley, Matthew E. "The Colossian hymn in context an exegesis in light of Jewish and Greco-Roman hymnic and epistolary conventions." Tübingen Mohr Siebeck, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2921592&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Gordley, Matthew E. "The Colossian hymn in context : an exegesis in light of Jewish and Greco-Roman hymnic and epistolary conventions /." Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2921592&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Knight, Gillian R. "Rhetoric and stylistics : the personalisation of convention in the letters of Peter the Venerable." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360716.

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Smialek, Amy B. "FE/MALE MOTHER OF TWO: GENDER AND MOTHERHOOD IN LIONEL SHRIVER’S WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1460635518.

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Books on the topic "Epistolary conventions"

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The city's gates. Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2012.

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Ruberg, Willemijn. Conventional correspondence: Epistolary culture of the Dutch elite, 1770-1850. Boston: Brill, 2011.

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Bianca-Jeanette, Schröder. Couriers and Conventions in Cicero’s Epistolary Network. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804208.003.0003.

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There was no postal service in antiquity: transmission of letters therefore always involved someone who carried the letter from sender to addressee. This chapter shows that the courier has to be inserted, as an important figure in his own right, into the complex and fascinating picture of etiquette and interaction that defined ancient epistolary communication. With special reference to the correspondence of Cicero, Schröder demonstrates that the author of a letter had to take into account not only the letter’s recipient and other potential readers within his circle (and beyond) but also, and every bit as much, the courier, who loomed over the potential contents of any letter as an inevitable frame and first filter. Detailed readings of passages from Cicero’s epistolary corpus illustrate the implications of this hitherto much-neglected aspect of letter-writing for our understanding of his correspondence.
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Paul's Large Letters: Paul's Autographic Subscription in the Light of Ancient Epistolary Conventions. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

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Reece, Steve. Paul's Large Letters: Paul's Autographic Subscription in the Light of Ancient Epistolary Conventions. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

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Colossian Hymn in Context: An Exegesis in Light of Jewish and Greco-Roman Hymnic & Epistolary Conventions (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament-2.Reihe). Mohr Siebeck, 2007.

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Ruberg, Willemijn. Conventional Correspondence: Epistolary Culture of the Dutch Elite, 1770-1850. BRILL, 2011.

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Ezell, Margaret J. M. The Oxford English Literary History. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198183112.001.0001.

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This volume in the Oxford English Literary History series covering 1645–1714 removes the traditional literary period labels and boundaries used in earlier studies to categorize the literary culture of late seventeenth-century England, from the Interregnum, through the Commonwealth, the Restoration, and the first decades of the eighteenth century. It explores the continuities and literary innovations occurring as English readers and writers lived through turbulent, unprecedented events, including a King tried and executed by Parliament and another exiled, the creation of the national entity ‘Great Britain’, and an expanding English awareness of New World, and the cultures of Asia and the subcontinent. The period saw the continuation of manuscript cultures and the establishment of new concepts of authorship; it saw a dramatic increase of women working as professional, commercial writers. London theatres closed by law in 1642 reopened with new forms of entertainment. Emerging literary forms such as epistolary fictions and topical essays were circulated and promoted by new media including newspapers, periodical publications, and advertising. Laws governing censorship were changing and initial steps were taken in the development of copyright. The period produced some of the most profound and influential literary expressions of religious faith, from John Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, while simultaneously giving rise to a culture of libertinism and savage polemical satire, as well as fostering the new dispassionate discourses of experimental sciences and the conventions of popular romance.
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Ezell, Margaret J. M. The Oxford English Literary History. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780191849572.001.0001.

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This volume in the Oxford English Literary History series covering 1645–1714 removes the traditional literary period labels and boundaries used in earlier studies to categorize the literary culture of late seventeenth-century England, from the Interregnum, through the Commonwealth, the Restoration, and the first decades of the eighteenth century. It explores the continuities and literary innovations occurring as English readers and writers lived through turbulent, unprecedented events, including a King tried and executed by Parliament and another exiled, the creation of the national entity ‘Great Britain’, and an expanding English awareness of New World, and the cultures of Asia and the subcontinent. The period saw the continuation of manuscript cultures and the establishment of new concepts of authorship; it saw a dramatic increase of women working as professional, commercial writers. London theatres closed by law in 1642 reopened with new forms of entertainment. Emerging literary forms such as epistolary fictions and topical essays were circulated and promoted by new media including newspapers, periodical publications, and advertising. Laws governing censorship were changing and initial steps were taken in the development of copyright. The period produced some of the most profound and influential literary expressions of religious faith, from John Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, while simultaneously giving rise to a culture of libertinism and savage polemical satire, as well as fostering the new dispassionate discourses of experimental sciences and the conventions of popular romance.
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Block, Geoffrey. From Screen to Stage. Edited by Robert Gordon. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391374.013.0016.

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Stephen Sondheim, in collaboration first with director Hal Prince and librettist Hugh Wheeler and later with director–librettist James Lapine, adapted two films to the musical stage. The first isA Little Night Music(1973), a musical based on Ingmar Bergman’s comic Swedish film masterpieceSmiles of a Summer Night(1955); the second isPassion(1994), described by Sondheim as “the world’s only epistolary musical,” based on the Italian filmPassione d’Amore(1981), adapted by director Ettore Scola from Iginio Ugo Tarchetti’s epistolary novelFosca(1869). InNight MusicSondheim offers a musical counterpart to the diversity of love explored inSmiles of a Summer Night, while inPassion, he musically captures the obsessive love of the ugly and sickly Fosca, and demonstrates that obsessive and altruistic love can triumph over a more conventional romantic love based on sexual attraction.
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Book chapters on the topic "Epistolary conventions"

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"Pauline Prescripts and Greco-Roman Epistolary Conventions." In Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture, 497–514. BRILL, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004236219_019.

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"Paul’s Letter Writing in the Light of Contemporary Epistolary Conventions." In Paul’s Large Letters. Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567669094.0011.

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Benton, Gregor, and Hong Liu. "Qiaopi and European Migrants’ Letters Compared." In Dear China, 151–75. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520298415.003.0008.

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This chapter compares qiaopi letters and institutions with their European equivalent. It first discusses the migrant settings and the emergence of a postal culture. European and Chinese migrants shared many characteristics, but their sending places and the communities they formed abroad differed greatly. These differences were reflected in their letters. The chapter compares the letters of European migrants and qiaopi in regard both to the institutions that kept the correspondence going and letter contents and conventions. It concludes that qiaopi letters shared some features with European migrants’ letters as a result of the convergence of cultures, the spread of markets, the commonalities of the migrant condition, and the universality of epistolary conventions, but that their remittance role gave a special shape to their style and content.
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"EPISTOLARY THEORY." In Conventional Correspondence, 17–54. BRILL, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004211070_003.

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Sapegno, Maria Serena. "The Epistolary Vittoria." In Vittoria Colonna. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463723947_ch05.

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To fully understand the importance of epistolary exchange and epistolarity in Vittoria Colonna’s thought and writings, it is necessary to go beyond the conventional categories handed down to us by the critical tradition. Within the limits of what may be achieved in the absence of a complete critical edition, we need both to examine the complex networks of relationships within which Colonna moved in her lifetime, and also to investigate the profound connections between her poetic compositions, her epistolary writing and her religious reflections, all pervaded by a similar dialogic impulse.
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Jodie, Medd. "‘I didn’t know there could be such writing’: The Aesthetic Intimacy of E. M. Forster and T. E. Lawrence." In Queer Bloomsbury. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401692.003.0015.

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Medd examines the correspondence between E.M. Forster and T.E. Lawrence, in which new possibilities of both male intimacy and masculine self-understanding were achieved through an exchange of writing and reading. This epistolary literary exchange eschewed conventions of published literary circulation and reconfigured the traditional reader-writer dyad. As Forster and Lawrence forged a friendship through the exchange of literary materials – including Forster’s ‘unpublishable’ fiction – and a self-reflective dialogue over their experiences of reading one another’s literature and absorbing their interlocutor’s response to their own writing, they negotiated the tricky landscape of male intimacy heightened with homoerotic possibilities, while also discovering and re-imagining new possibilities of (homo)sexual and literary self-understanding. The correspondence constitutes an alternative queer circuit of literary exchange, in which scenes of reading and writing form bonds of male intimacy that re imagine both the terms of masculine identity and desire and the very terms of the literary itself.
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Sowerby, Tracey A. "Negotiating with the Material Text." In Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the Early Modern World, 203–19. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835691.003.0013.

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Royal letters were an integral part of early modern diplomatic communication, intended to shape inter-princely relationships through their content and their material form. The exchange of letters was a communicative mechanism on multiple, not simply textual, levels. Utilizing an interdisciplinary methodology and focusing on letters sent to and from English monarchs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this chapter demonstrates the dynamic interactions between material text and the diplomatic conventions—ceremonial, material, visual, spatial—in which they need to be understood. Knowledge of the ceremonial context into which letters were sent shaped the considerations of how they looked and how they travelled. Although the predominant form of inter-princely letter exchanged within Europe was different from the predominant form of letters between European and non-European rulers, several of the same factors were at play. Rather than indicating a lack of cultural understanding between English diplomats and non-European princes, the epistolary practice of Elizabeth I and James VI/I suggests that many of the semiotics of power at extra-European courts were adeptly recognized by English diplomats.
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Maciejewska, Iwona. "Trudna droga do prywatności – o ewolucji epistolarnej konwencji w XVIII stuleciu." In Życie prywatne Polaków w XIX wieku. „Prywatne światy zamknięte w listach”. Tom 7. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego; Instytut Historii i Stosunków Międzynarodowych UWM, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/8142-182-9.02.

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The paper presents complex conditions which had influence on shape of epistolography in Poland causing that private, intimate content was marginalised frequently. On one hand discretion limiting showing affections characteristic for Old Polish had meaning, but on the other preserved epistolary patterns propagated by very popular handbooks in which everyday life and privacy constituted secondary issues. Widespread panegyrical convention, which underlined the distance between the sender and the addresee and formalized the language of comments, had substantial meaning. Presented considerations analyze two propositions concerning changes in the model of correspondence which were formed in the 18th century. Their authors – Aleksander Paweł Zatorski and Stanisław Szymański – encouraged people by new patterns to change epistolary habits teaching them how to introduce in an open and natural way their feelings and needs.
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James, Carolyn. "Conclusion." In A Renaissance Marriage, 185–88. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199681211.003.0010.

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Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga together navigated the highs and many lows of the first conflicts of the Italian Wars, their cooperation underpinned by a mutual devotion to their children and concern for the future of the Gonzaga regime. But this study has shown that it was difficult to agree about the terms of that collaboration, a situation that the richly nuanced sources permit us to understand within the terms of premodernity. The couple’s acrimonious epistolary negotiations during the last years of their union over the extent to which the conventional marital hierarchy should be observed provide evidence of the powerful influence of gendered norms, but also of how prescriptive social rules might at times be modified or ignored by individuals when pragmatic issues overtook ideology.
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Mayer, Peta. "The Storyteller Returns: Hotel du Lac (1984)." In Misreading Anita Brookner, 224–46. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620597.003.0007.

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The epilogue reads Hotel du Lac through the figure of the storyteller, which it links to the genius woman writer, and argues that Brookner’s Booker Prize winner proleptically anticipates her aestheticist emphasis on beauty, form and technique. Utilising Walter Benjamin’s essay on the storyteller, and iconic figures of Staël, Colette, Woolf and Proust, the storyteller is produced through narratives of exile and return and focuses on the craft of the writer and artist persona including misreading, reversal, orality, frame narrative, epistolary form, paraprosdokian and anagnorisis. Colette’s The Pure and the Impure helps contextualise Edith’s scopophilic fascination with the mother/daughter pairing of Iris and Jennifer Pusey, which symptomise as a homoerotic narrative excess in the unsent letters to her lover. Edith’s queer preoccupations further illuminate the satirical treatement of gender, love, marriage and the heterosexual romance narrative in Hotel du Lac and more broadly in Brookner’s oeuvre. Like most Brooknerines, Edith rejects conventional romance for the romance of art and women’s writing. In conclusion, this chapter reviews the cross-historical intertextual performance of creative male gender through the contemporary female subject which sanctions a host of queer possibilities between female characters and plotlines. It celebrates Brookner as consummate aesthete, artist and storyteller.
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