EPISTOLARY GENRE, FEMALE BY EXCELLENCE Cover Image

GENUL EPISTOLAR, GEN FEMININ PRIN EXECELENŢĂ?
EPISTOLARY GENRE, FEMALE BY EXCELLENCE

Author(s): Ioana Bud
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: love correspondence; fragmentarism; epistolier; discontinuity; intimate discourse; fragmentary literature;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issue of patterns in which women have entered literature through a genre long considered marginal, closed archives and facsimile: love correspondence. Since the seventeenth century, ladies express their feelings freely throug correspondence. Using poetic expressions devoid of affectation and artifice literary grounds that it will lead La Bruyere to affirm, by reference to epistolierii male, that this genre is under the sign of femininity. Reviewing the main correspondences of literature is stated that not every letter is transformed into literary fact and the letters must meet certain conditions. The reader plays a decisive role in the transformation of a non-literary text in one with literary value, this movement is crucial when it arises between reader and text, prompting it to secure fictionalized. In conclusion, the epistolary practice is an masculine genre, practiced in excellence by females.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 121-130
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian