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In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Current State of Research -- Part I: Theoretical Considerations -- 3 The Epistolary Short Story in Canada and Beyond -- 4 Liminality and the Epistolary Short Story -- Part II: Analytical Case Studies -- 5 The Epistolary Mode as First- and Second-Person Narration in the Single-Letter Story -- 6 Letters from Alice Munro, ‘the Master of the Epistolary Short Story -- 7 Between ‘Here’ and ‘There’: Letters and the Experience of Migration -- 8 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
This book deals with letters in Anglophone Canadian short stories of the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century in the context of liminality. It argues that in the course of the epistolary renaissance, the letter – which has often been deemed to be obsolete in literature – has not only enjoyed an upsurge in novels but also migrated to the short story, thus constituting the genre of the epistolary short story