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Ravishment of Persephone: Epistolary Lyric in the Sihcle Des Lumihres

Ravishment of Persephone: Epistolary Lyric in the Sihcle Des Lumihres

De Pree, Julia

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Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, Book 258

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0807892629
ISBN13: 9780807892626
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Jan 1 1998
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.94 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

This study delineates a theory of epistolary lyric that refutes historical notions of a siècle sans poésie. Julia De Pree argues that monophonic, epistolary texts written during the Ancien Régime both reflect and resist the Classical legacy and at the same time anticipate the nineteenth-century prose poem. De Pree illustrates her theory of epistolary lyric through readings in the historical canon (Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos) but emphasizes the contributions of the épistolière: Françoise de Graffigny, Isabelle de Charrière, and Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni. She argues that through their relatively short length, their incorporation of blank space, and their monophonic voice, female-authored letter-texts articulate epistolary lyric at the intersection of narrative, theatrical, and poetic codes. De Pree concludes that as a plural and protean form, epistolary lyric anticipates the so-called poetic revolution(s) that transformed nineteenth-century French lyric.

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