The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism

Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and...
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Author: Sarah Chihaya
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The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Chihaya, Sarah

The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism

$94.38

The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism

$94.38
Author: Sarah Chihaya
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's 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 Ferrante's 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.

Author: Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 01/07/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780231194570


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/04/2019
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2019
Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 90

About the Author
Sarah Chihaya is assistant professor of English at Princeton University.

Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. Her most recent book is The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing (2018).

Katherine Hill is assistant professor of English at Adelphi University. She is the author of the novels The Violet Hour (2013) and A Short Move (2020).

Jill Richards is assistant professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. She is the author of The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes (2020).

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