Dear readers,
we, the curators of this blog, are very pleased to announce that our edited collection Was ist ein Brief? – Aufsätze zu epistolarer Theorie und Kultur. What is a letter? – Essays on epistolary theory and culture is now available from Königshausen & Neumann.
Our warmest thanks go to the authors who contributed to this volume.
Your sincerely,
Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig and Caroline Socha
PS: Table of contents
Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig / Caroline Socha: Von einfachen Fragen, oder: Ein Brief zur Einführung
I. Konzepte des Briefes / Conceptualizing letters
Michael Sinding: Letterier: categories, genres, and epistolarity
Nicholas Cronk: Generic instability in Voltaire’s correspondence: When is a letter not a letter?
Robert Vellusig: Die Poesie des Briefes. Eine literaturanthropologische Skizze
Inka Kording: Epistolarisches. Die achtfache Relationalität des Briefes
Jochen Strobel: Welchen Erkenntnisgewinn versprechen digitale Briefeditionen?
II. Ein Medium im Wandel / A changing medium
Grace Egan: Epistolary valediction in Johnson and Thrale’s correspondence
Julia Gillen: ‘I should have wrote a letter tonight’: A Literacy Studies perspective on the Edwardian postcard
Alan Scott: Letters 2.0? Linguistic insights into the extent to which social media are a substitute for personal letters
Emma de Vries: Letters in/on transition: neo-epistolarity, nostalgia, and new media
III. Schreibkulturen / Cultures of writing
Patrick Reinard: Briefe auf Papyri und Ostraka. Bemerkungen zur quellenkritischen Auswertung in der althistorischen Forschung
Lik Hang Tsui: Calligraphic letters as precious objects in Chinese history
Lena Vosding: Gifts from the convent: the letters of the Benedictine Nuns at Lüne as the material manifestation of spiritual care
Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig: Collaboration and imagination in letters between parents and their children: The Herder family correspondence 1788–89
Autorinnen und Autoren / Contributors
