The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism

The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Literature Now)

Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferranteâ€™s Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferranteâ€™s intense depiction of female friendship and womenâ€™s intellectual lives, four critics embarked upon a project that was both work and play: to create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together.

In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Ferranteâ€™s work and her fictional world, Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards strike a tone at once critical and personal, achieving a way of talking about literature that falls between the seminar and the book club. Their letters make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all literary criticism and also illuminate the authorsâ€™ lives outside the academy. The Ferrante Letters offers an improvisational, collaborative, and cumulative model for reading and writing with others, proposing a new method the authors call collective criticism. A book for fans of Ferrante and for literary scholars seeking fresh modes of intellectual exchange, The Ferrante Letters offers incisive criticism, insouciant riffs, and the pleasure of giving oneself over to an extended conversation about fiction with friends.
Country USA
Brand Columbia University Press
Manufacturer Columbia University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780231194570
ReleaseDate 2019-12-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780231194570

Country	USA
Brand	Columbia University Press
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780231194570
ReleaseDate	2019-12-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780231194570

The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Literature Now)

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