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Title: Ferrante Letters, The: An Experiment in Collective Criticism
Author: CHIHAYA SARAH/EMRE MERVE/HILL KATHERIRICHARDS JILL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/12/2019
Imprint: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $42.00
Publishing status: Active
ike few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrantes intense depiction of female friendship and womens 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 Ferrantes 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: Literature Now
ISBN: 9780231194570
Pages: 280
Edition: 01