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Dimitrie Bolintineanu’s Manoil From Literary Convention to Moralizing Lesson [PDF]

Cultural Intertexts, 2015
This paper analyses the construction of Manoil, the eponymous hero of Dimitrie Bolintineanu’s novel, in relation to: a number of European fictional models present in the 19th century in the ‘very young’ Romanian literature; to the non-competitive ...
Viviana–Sabina BRĂTUC
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The diary and the letter: madness and private writing in the anti-bourgeois novels of Celati and Le Clézio

Finzioni, 2022
The goal of this article is to analyse two novels, Le procès-verbal (1963) by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio and Comiche (1971) by Gianni Celati. In the first part of the essay, I will illustrate the cultural common ground in which the two books were born.
Simone Giorgio
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Letter Troubles: Rereading Futon in Conversation with Japan’s Epistolary Discourse

Humanities, 2023
Scholarship on letters in modern Japanese literature typically describes their discursive transformation from objects of practical import to texts of literary significance in the late Meiji 30s and 40s, a transformation contemporaneous to and engendered ...
Kevin Niehaus
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Why did the Epistolary Novel Go Out of Fashion? [PDF]

Литературный факт
The epistolary novel, extremely popular in European literature of the 17th‒18th centuries, nearly disappeared from the literary horizon in the middle of the 19th century and subsequently was used mainly in metaliterary and parodic functions. This article
Sergey N. Zenkin
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Anecdotes et cohérence textuelle dans un roman de Loaisel de Tréogate [PDF]

Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2007
In the monographic epistolary novel of Loaisel de Tréogate Ainsi finissent les grandes passions (1788), the experiential predominates over the narrative function, the discourse over the story.
María Teresa Ramos Gómez
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Psychological Reflection in Clara Reeve’s novel "The exiles; or, Memoires of the Count de Cronstadt"

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2018
The article focuses on the new types of protagonists that Clara Reeve introduces in her novel «The Exiles, or Memoirs of the Count de Cronstadt». For Reeve, this book was a turning point towards a new genre, the sentimental novel, which was gaining ...
Elena V. Grigorieva
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Hyperion as an epistolary novel

, 2021
O objetivo deste artigo é abordar a interrelação entre o gênero epistolar e o Bildungsroman em Hyperion, de Friedrich Hölderlin. Suas características como romance epistolar são congruentes com suas características como Bildungsroman, portanto, o gênero epistolar é justificado.
Pau, Juan, Ferrari, Mariela
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