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Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction

By: Linda S. Kauffman

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Hardcover | 1 March 1992 | Edition Number 1

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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 Oedipus, grounded in history and politics, giving epistolarity a distinctively postmodern stamp.

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue
List of Abbreviations
Producing Woman
From Russia with Love
Zoo, or Letters Not about Love Historical Background and Theoretical Coordinates
Generic Reaccentuation and Innovation inZoo Shklovsky's Addresses
Dialogic Contestation The Production of Woman Elsa Triolet's Letters inZoo
Framing Lolita
Is There a Woman in the Text? Episolarity inLolita Literature as Social Change or Aesthetic Bliss Reading Dialogically
Lolita's Other Analogues Is There a Woman in the Text?
Dangerous Liasons: Roland Barthes's
A Lover's Discourseand Jacques Derrida's
The Post Card The Production of the Text The Deconstruction of Story and Plot
The Deconstruction of Character and Identity The Role of the Addressee
The Production of Woman Feminist Critiques of Barthes and Derrida
Women's Productions
The Golden Notebook
Anna Wulf's Schizoanalysis Sexuality, Sexual Politics, and the Displacement of Identity
Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents Global Politics and the Social
Genesis of Psychosis Lessing's Critique of the Realistic Novel
Constructing Otherness: Struggles of Representation in
The Color Purple Epistolary Precursors Slave Narratives as Generic Predecessors Constructing Otherness by Gender and Tribe Walker's
Vision of History and Utopia Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple
Twenty-first Century Epistolarity in
The Handmaid's Tale Masculine
Writing/Feminine Speech
Atwood's Episolary Antecedents Docile Bodies
An Anatomy of Ideology
Epilogue
Index
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