Reshaping The Boundaries Of Epistolary Discourse

Download or read book Reshaping the Boundaries of Epistolary Discourse written by Aistė Kučinskienė and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. The studies of the epistolary texts are now experiencing a growth. The fact that the letter writing can be considered as a dying art also has its influence on the increment of investigations. Researchers in literature, history, cultural history and other fields are trying to involve the letters in their inquiries and manage their transitional nature: the epistolary discourse poises between the historical and textual, public and private, documentary and literary, etc. Considering letters as extravagant narratives (a term of Elizabeth J. MacArthur), the chapters in this volume question the letter as a particular text and define different aspects of epistolarity in varying contexts.