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Special Delivery: Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction (Women in Culture and Society) by LINDA S. KAUFFMAN, Linda S. Kauffman, foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson, Linda S. Kauffman, Catharine R. Stimpson, Linda Sue Kauffman is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Though letter writing is almost a lost art, twentieth-century writers have mimed the epistolary mode as a means of reevaluating the theme of love. In Special Delivery, Linda S. Kauffman places the narrative treatment of love in historical context, showing how politics, economics, and commodity culture have shaped the meaning of desire. Kauffman first considers male writers whose works, testing the boundaries of genre and gender, imitate love letters: Viktor Shklovsky's Zoo, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, and Jacques Derrida's The Post Card. She then turns to three novels by women who are more preoccupied with politics than passion: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. By juxtaposing these women's productions with the men's production of Woman, Special Delivery dismantles the polarities between male and female, theory and fiction, high and low culture, male critical theory, and feminist literary criticism. Kauffman demonstrates how all seven texts mercilessly expose the ideology of individualism and romantic love; each presents alternate paradigms of desire, wrested from Oed

Author

LINDA S. KAUFFMAN, Linda S. Kauffman, foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson, Linda S. Kauffman, Catharine R. Stimpson, Linda Sue Kauffman

Publisher

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226426815

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities