Who doesn't? (How Writing Letters Makes Us Better Persons)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_1-2_8

Keywords:

Materialities of Comunication, Letter, Epistolography, Rousseau, Derrida

Abstract

This essay aims to deal with certain physical, material, symbolic and sensory features of the “letter” as an object, from its first occurrences as a function of the creation of a postal system, through the modeling that occurred in the nineteenth century and was crucial to its definition, until its contemporary forms. For that purpose, a series of pragmatic, philosophical and literary arguments will be discussed.

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Author Biography

Ricardo Namora, University of Coimbra | CLP

Ricardo Namora estudou na Universidade de Coimbra (Licenciatura, 2001; Mestrado, 2010) e na Universidade de Lisboa (Mestrado, 2004; Doutoramento, 2009). É membro do Centro de Literatura Portuguesa da Universidade de Coimbra, unidade de investigação patrocinada pela F.C.T. Os seus interesses incluem teoria da literatura, história da crítica, hermenêutica, biografias e teorias da ficção.

Ricardo Namora holds degrees from the University of Coimbra (BA, 2001; MA, 2010) and from the University of Lisbon (MA, 2004; PhD, 2009). He is a member of the Centre for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra, a research unit sponsored by the F.C.T. His research subjects include literary theory, history of criticism, hermeneutics, biographies and theories of fiction.

MatLit_1.2 (2013)

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Published

2014-03-28

How to Cite

Namora, Ricardo. 2014. “Who doesn’t? (How Writing Letters Makes Us Better Persons)”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 1 (2):125-36. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_1-2_8.

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2013): Writing and Cinema

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Secção Não Temática | Non-Thematic Section

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