Ferrante Letters - An Experiment in Collective Criticism

In The Ferrante Letters, four critics 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 Elena Ferrante¿s work and her fictional world, they strike a tone that falls between the seminar and the book club.

List of contents

Introduction: Collective Criticism
I. Letters (2015)
My Brilliant Friend
The Story of a New Name
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
The Story of the Lost Child
II. Essays (2018)
Unform, by Sarah Chihaya
The Story of a Fiction, by Katherine Hill
The Queer Counterfactual, by Jill Richards
The Cage of Authorship, by Merve Emre
Afterword
Appendix: Guest Letters, by Sara Marcus, Marissa Brostoff, Lili Loofbourow, Cecily Swanson, and Amy Schiller
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography

About the author

Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Juno Jill Richards

Summary

In The Ferrante Letters, four critics 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 Elena Ferrante’s work and her fictional world, they strike a tone that falls between the seminar and the book club.

Additional text

The Ferrante Letters is extremely absorbing. It’s rare to come across university-nurtured criticism, informed by theory, that is jargon-free and studded with insight.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Chihaya, Sarah Emre Chihaya, Merve Emre, Merve (Los Angeles Review Of Books) Emre, Katherine Hill, Hill Katherine, Jill Richards, Juno Jill Richards
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780231194570
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19457-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Literature Now; Literature Now
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Italy, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY COLLECTIONS