Poetics of the love letter, narration, dialogue and apostrophe

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Schaepkens, Sven Peter Charlotte (2014)

Poetics of the love letter, narration, dialogue and apostrophe

Master thesis | Media Studies (MA)

In this thesis I sketch out a poetics of the love letter. With this poetics I propose that the structure of the love letter generates an uncanny form of textual presence of the lover in the text. The lover’s presence is suggested by an interplay of three basic modes of address: the narratological mode of address (Bal, M.); the apostrophic mode of address (Culler J. et al.); the dialogic mode of address (Bakhtin, M. M.). This poetics of the love letter is mainly based on the close reading of the love letters of M. Tsvetajeva to A. Bachrach (1923) and the epistles of A. Chekhov and O. Knipper (1899 - 1904).

Poetics of the love letter