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Hu, Chin-yuan.

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Writing the self: Epistolary form in "Lettres portugaises", "Pamela" and "Letters of T'an-lang".

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Writing the self: Epistolary form in "Lettres portugaises", "Pamela" and "Letters of T'an-lang"./
Author:	Hu, Chin-yuan.
Description:	150 p.
Notes:	Co-Chairs: L. Ross Chambers; Shuen-fu Lin.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-11A.
Subject:	Literature, Asian. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9308341

Writing the self: Epistolary form in "Lettres portugaises", "Pamela" and "Letters of T'an-lang".
Hu, Chin-yuan.

Writing the self: Epistolary form in "Lettres portugaises", "Pamela" and "Letters of T'an-lang". - 150 p.

Co-Chairs: L. Ross Chambers; Shuen-fu Lin.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 1992.

In comparing Gabriel de Guilleragues's Lettres portugaises (1669), Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), and Ch'i-teng Sheng's T'an-lang te Shu-hsin: Hsien-ke Dai-an-na Nu-shen (Letters of T'an-lang: Dedicated to Goddess Diana) (1985), I have chosen to focus on the use of the letter to create the self. Apart from the single narrative voice (in the case of Pamela, the heroine writes more than 90% of the letters in the novel), what unites the three works from three distinct cultures, countries and centuries is the letter writers' preoccupation with the self and subjectivity realized through the textualization of their lives in the letters.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017599
Literature, Asian.

Writing the self: Epistolary form in "Lettres portugaises", "Pamela" and "Letters of T'an-lang".
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520 $a In comparing Gabriel de Guilleragues's Lettres portugaises (1669), Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), and Ch'i-teng Sheng's T'an-lang te Shu-hsin: Hsien-ke Dai-an-na Nu-shen (Letters of T'an-lang: Dedicated to Goddess Diana) (1985), I have chosen to focus on the use of the letter to create the self. Apart from the single narrative voice (in the case of Pamela, the heroine writes more than 90% of the letters in the novel), what unites the three works from three distinct cultures, countries and centuries is the letter writers' preoccupation with the self and subjectivity realized through the textualization of their lives in the letters.
520 $a My working hypothesis of the possibility of the textualized self is that only in narrative can we discover psychic explanations. Narration is an act not merely of perceiving the self, but of creating the self. There is no other way accessible to us outside of or other than this act. In the three epistolary novels, writing (letters) turns out to be coterminous with the discovery of the self. The self appears as an expression, a linguistic construction. It is not autonomous and transcendent but contingent on language for its very existence. It follows that dispersed into language, the self has no ontological status within or without the text.
520 $a In demonstrating where the formal properties of the letter stand in relation to the de/construction of the self, I choose to vary the focus from text to text. In Chapter II (Lovers' Dialogue, Woman's Monologue: Lettres portugaises), I argue that Mariane's isolation and the retrospective/reconstructive narration by and large contribute to her created self. In Chapter III (Private Letters, Public Reading: Pamela), the authenticity and immediacy inherent in Richardsonian letter form is elaborated. In Chapter IV (Fictional Letters, Real Life: Letters of T'an-lang), I highlight the interplay of fancy/imagination and reality in terms of the letter's capacity for absence and presence.
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