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The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism
by Juno Jill Richards, Katherine Hill, Merve Emre, Sarah Chihaya
Aug. 27, 2023 - Aug. 31, 2023 (read, literary-criticism)

? (2020). The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism. Columbia University Press.


Columbia University Press, 2020. 288 pages. Paperback. 9780231194570

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p.247
fulsome »
(adjective) characterized by abundance; copious /…
p.125
exegesis »
(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical exp…
p.117
bathos »
(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope t…
p.56
dialogic »
pertaining to a dialogue; used by the Russian phi…
p.51
scrim »
(noun) a durable plain-woven usually cotton fabri…
p.242
Lenu needs feminism and feminism needs her
Sometimes the way we get turned on to politics is…
p.239
the vexed intersection of communism and boys
What first got me hooked on the Neapolitan novels…
p.221
acquiring density
Where Ferrante’s guidance seems most apparent is …
p.145
a strange and agonizing lesson in how to read mys…
[...] In Frantumaglia, Ferrante writes that, “We …
p.132
the impartially cruel impossibility of that desire
The pleasure one finds in the supposed perfection…