- 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
- 1 online resource.
- 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
- Ferrante letters (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780231550888
- LCCN
- 2019022532
- OCLC
- ssj0002247586
- Title
The Ferrante letters [electronic resource] : an experiment in collective criticism / Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, Jill Richards.
- Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, 2019.
- Series
Literature now
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Chihaya, Sarah.
Emre, Merve.
Hill, Katherine, 1982-
Richards, Jill C., 1983-
Marcus, Sara, 1977-
Brostoff, Marissa.
Loofbourow, Lili.
Schiller, Amy.
Swanson, Cecily.
- Other Form:
Print version: The Ferrante letters New York : Columbia University Press, 2019. 9780231194563 (DLC) 2019022531