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Mail-orders : the fiction of letters in postmodern culture / Sunka Simon.
Van Pelt Library PN3448.E6 S49 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simon, Sunka.
- Series:
- SUNY series in postmodern culture
- The SUNY series in postmodern culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epistolary fiction--History and criticism.
- Epistolary fiction.
- Letters in literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 333 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1. A Briefing 1
- Mailing Women and Feminisms 5
- Epistolary Theory and Fiction: A Postmodern Poetics? 12
- 2. Rhapsody in Letters: Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina 19
- Epistolary Metonymy or the Letter as Metaphor 20
- Rhapsody and Letters 23
- Rhapsody #1-4 28
- 3. Chain Mail: Letters Postcards Travel Guides ...? Barth, Derrida, and Levi 59
- "Letters" 71
- "Postcard" 95
- "Travel Guide" 122
- 4. Mass-Mailing: The Language Hazard 139
- Mail-Order Manual 148
- The Discourse of the Other 153
- 5. Romancing the Post: Peter Handke's Short Letter, Long Farewell 165
- 6. Mail-Art: Einsteckalbum 197
- Insert 1 Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine 197
- Insert 2 Karl Schaper's "Post Office of Thanatos" 203
- Insert 3 Nicomedes Suarez-Arauz's Amnesis Art 206
- 7. Posting E-Mail 213
- Posting 1 on "the electronic word" 220
- Posting 2 on Exegesis 223
- Posting 3 on The Postman 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-311) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0791453499
- 0791453502
- OCLC:
- 47283243
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