Author: W. H. DilworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Familiar Letter-writer
Author: W. H. DilworthThe Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin
Author: William Mills ToddPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810117112
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This text examines the tradition of familiar letter writing that developed in the early 1800s among the Arzamasians, a literary circle that included such luminaries as Pushkin, Karamzin and Turgenev, and argues that these letters constitute a distinct literary genre. Todd gives a thorough prehistory of the convention of correspondence and concentrates on the themes, strategies, and autobiographical functions of the letter for several master writers in Pushkin's time. It is written in an accessible style with translations, an annotated list of the Arzamasians, and an extensive index and a bibliography.
The Complete Letter-writer. Containing Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life, Etc
Author: COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Familiar Letter-writer
Author: The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English
Author: Susan M. FitzmauricePublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9781588111869
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.
The Complete Letter-writer; Or, Polite English Secretary. Containing Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life ... The Twelfth Edition, Improved
Author: COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Complete Letter-writer
Author: The Complete Letter-writer
Author: The Complete Letter-writer; Or, Polite English Secretary. Containing, Familiar Letters on the Most Common Occasions in Life ... The Eleventh Edition, Improved
Author: COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Author: John Newbery