Research Catalog

Title

The Ferrante letters : an experiment in collective criticism / Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, Jill Richards.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chihaya, Sarah
• Emre, Merve
• Hill, Katherine, 1982-
• Richards, Jill C., 1983-
• Marcus, Sara, 1977-
• Brostoff, Marissa
• Loofbourow, Lili
• Schiller, Amy
• Swanson, Cecily

Description

277 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women'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 Ferrante'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 authors' 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"--

Series Statement

Literature now

Uniform Title

Literature Now.

Subjects

• Ferrante, Elena
• Female friendship in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Ferrante, Elena > Criticism and interpretation
• Women in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part 1: Letters (2015) -- Part 2: Essays (2018) -- "Unform," Sarah Chihaya -- "The Story of a Fiction," Katherine Hill -- "The Queer Counterfactual," Jill Richards -- "The Cage of Authorship," Merve Emre -- Afterword -- Appendix: Guest Letters -- Sara Marcus, Marissa Brostoff, Lili Loofbourow, Amy Schiller, and Cecily Swanson.

Call Number

JFD 20-2277

ISBN

• 9780231194563
• 0231194560
• 9780231194570
• 0231194579
• 9780231550888 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019022531

OCLC

1100782089

Title

The Ferrante letters : an experiment in collective criticism / Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, Jill Richards.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literature now

Literature Now.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Chihaya, Sarah, author.

Emre, Merve, author.

Hill, Katherine, 1982- author.

Richards, Jill C., 1983- author.

Marcus, Sara, 1977- author.

Brostoff, Marissa, author.

Loofbourow, Lili, author.

Schiller, Amy, author.

Swanson, Cecily, author.

Other Form:

Online version: Chihaya, Sarah, The ferrante letters New York : Columbia University Press, 2019. 9780231550888 (DLC) 2019022532

Research Call Number

JFD 20-2277