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Om breve: Ni essays om brevformen i hverdagen, litteraturen og journalistikken
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Abstract The letter is the most widespread literary genre at all. For several hundred years letter books containing model letters for lovers have been published, while today they have been camouflaged as "manuals" for internet dating. John Chr. Jørgensen analyses the epistolary form in correspondences, epist... view more
The letter is the most widespread literary genre at all. For several hundred years letter books containing model letters for lovers have been published, while today they have been camouflaged as "manuals" for internet dating. John Chr. Jørgensen analyses the epistolary form in correspondences, epistolary novels and letters of travel through the past 150 years. En route the most recent especially American research in epistolary theory is presented and discussed. The book contains analyses of epistolary novels by M.A. Goldsmidt, Peter Nansen, Karin Michaëlis, Edith Rode, Sven Holm, Dea Trier Mørch, Iselin C. Hermann and Anders Bodelsen among others. The journalistic travelogue is traced from Herman Bang to Henrik Nordbrandt. The book is provided with a literary guide sorted out by subject, a subject index and an index of names.... view less
Keywords
letter; essay; journalism; literature (discipline); twenty-first century; theory; literature; twentieth century; nineteenth century; literary history
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
City
Kopenhagen
Page/Pages
154 p.
ISBN
87-635-0623-8
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works