Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)This book made me read (or re-read) the Heroides, Clarissa, Jane Eyre, the Portuguese nun's letters and the correspondance between Abelard and Heloise. Many half-forgotten connections, some of them surprising, were brought to light. As a delicacy, I should add it helped me to deal with an old epistolary relationship of mine. I realized how many foolish insinuations and hopes are half-hidden in every love letter. In short, the book was an enrichment for my modestly emerging academic self. (how many books really are, nowadays?)
Click Here to see more reviews about: Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions
Kauffman looks at a neglected genre--the love letter written by literary heroines. Tracing the development of the genre from Ovid to the twentieth-century novel, she explores the important implications of these amatory discourses for an understanding of fictive representation in general.
Click here for more information about Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions
No comments:
Post a Comment