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“Let Fall a Stocking” is an epistolary memoir. It is one side of an intimate correspondence, which reveals details of the author’s past growing up in the American South, as well as a present-tense romance between himself and his interlocutor. The essay, “Intimacy and Complicity: The Shared Spaces of the Letter” serves as both a critical introduction to the manuscript and a poetics of epistolarity. It explores the physical and mental spaces involved in letter-writing and how the past and present and the delay of time connect and separate correspondents, as well as the voyeurism involved in reading the letters exchanged by others.
Advisor: | Richard, Charles E. |
Commitee: | DeVine, Christine, Wilson, Mary Ann |
School: | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
Department: | English |
School Location: | United States -- Louisiana |
Source: | DAI-A 79/01(E), Dissertation Abstracts International |
Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
Subjects: | Creative writing, American literature |
Keywords: | Correspondence, Epistolarity, Memoir, Southern, Spaces |
Publication Number: | 10269977 |
ISBN: | 978-0-355-11462-1 |