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This document discusses how emotional debris can be found in early modern letters. It summarizes an excerpt from Ovid where the character Briseis describes how her tears have blurred the ink on the letter, representing the material traces of her emotions. The document then discusses how literary devices were used to convey emotion in letters, and how traces of emotion can still be detected materially through things like ink blots or torn pages, though these cannot always certainly be pinned to a specific em
- Author
- Juan Martín Duana
- Language
- EN