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Simon, Sunka.

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Contemporary epistolary fiction and theory: A postmodern poetics?

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contemporary epistolary fiction and theory: A postmodern poetics?/
Author:	Simon, Sunka.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1993,
Description:	414 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-01, Section: A, page: 1930.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-01A.
Subject:	German literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9313432

Contemporary epistolary fiction and theory: A postmodern poetics?
Simon, Sunka.

Contemporary epistolary fiction and theory: A postmodern poetics? - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1993 - 414 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-01, Section: A, page: 1930.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 1993.

This study explores the correspondences between epistolary theory and fiction which occupy a commanding position in much of contemporary literature and literary criticism. It seeks to understand the mechanisms and economy of the discourses that facilitate these interrelations. Further, the study analyzes how epistolary fiction and theory intersect to produce a postmodern poetics. These intersections problematize the role of genre as gender and gender as genre. I first investigate the production of Woman as an allegory of genre and as a writing practice in four works by male authors to then interpret the epistolary interstices between two novels by women writers. Instead of writing either a literary history or a normative poetics of the epistolary device in postwar literature, I examine the paradoxical usage of the letter-form as a reliable vehicle at a time in which language's ability to provide and maintain stable meanings is radically questioned. In close readings of epistolary fiction and theory by John Barth, Jacques Derrida, Peter Handke, Hans Bemmann, Christine Bruckner, Ingeborg Bachmann, and drawing from interdisciplinary sources and from a diversity of methodological approaches, I engage in an inner- and intertextual dialogue between postmodern and epistolary narrative strategies.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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German literature.

Contemporary epistolary fiction and theory: A postmodern poetics?
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520 $a This study explores the correspondences between epistolary theory and fiction which occupy a commanding position in much of contemporary literature and literary criticism. It seeks to understand the mechanisms and economy of the discourses that facilitate these interrelations. Further, the study analyzes how epistolary fiction and theory intersect to produce a postmodern poetics. These intersections problematize the role of genre as gender and gender as genre. I first investigate the production of Woman as an allegory of genre and as a writing practice in four works by male authors to then interpret the epistolary interstices between two novels by women writers. Instead of writing either a literary history or a normative poetics of the epistolary device in postwar literature, I examine the paradoxical usage of the letter-form as a reliable vehicle at a time in which language's ability to provide and maintain stable meanings is radically questioned. In close readings of epistolary fiction and theory by John Barth, Jacques Derrida, Peter Handke, Hans Bemmann, Christine Bruckner, Ingeborg Bachmann, and drawing from interdisciplinary sources and from a diversity of methodological approaches, I engage in an inner- and intertextual dialogue between postmodern and epistolary narrative strategies.
520 $a One of the most obvious traits shared by epistolarity and postmodernism is their interdisciplinary and intercultural character. Letters do not stop at political, geographical, linguistic, or sexual borders. The desire to unsettle and sidestep sedentary and totalitarian power structures through mobile linguistic disconnections by juxtaposing themes, styles, and interpretations is probably the most common element of many postmodern theories and literary works. While my study concerns itself specifically with the textuality of the postal code, it also inquires into the tendency of contemporary writers to romanticize postmodern indeterminacies. To varying degrees, the authors seek to achieve their "postmodernity" via the "post" rather than to acknowledge the epistolary genre and postmodernism itself as practices of signification. I conclude that the letter-form's value for postmodernism lies precisely in the clash between its use as an agent and as a signifying practice, a confrontation which it carries out in contemporary fiction and theory.
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