The Ferrante Letters : An Experiment in Collective Criticism / Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, Jill Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chihaya, Sarah, Author.

Contributor:

Chihaya, Sarah.

Emre, Merve.

Hill, Katherine, 1982-

Richards, Jill C., 1983-

Marcus, Sara, 1977-

Series:

Literature Now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ferrante, Elena--Criticism and interpretation.

Ferrante, Elena.

Female friendship in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives, four critics embarked upon a project that was both work and play: to create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together.In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Ferrante's work and her fictional world, Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards strike a tone at once critical and personal, achieving a way of talking about literature that falls between the seminar and the book club. Their letters make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all literary criticism and also illuminate the authors' lives outside the academy. The Ferrante Letters offers an improvisational, collaborative, and cumulative model for reading and writing with others, proposing a new method the authors call collective criticism. A book for fans of Ferrante and for literary scholars seeking fresh modes of intellectual exchange, The Ferrante Letters offers incisive criticism, insouciant riffs, and the pleasure of giving oneself over to an extended conversation about fiction with friends.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Collective Criticism

My Brilliant Friend

The Story of a New Name

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

The Story of the Lost Child

Unform

The Story of a Fiction

The Queer Counterfactual

The Cage of Authorship

Afterword

Appendix: Guest Letters

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-231-55088-X

OCLC:

1130904478