Stuplimity and Quick Media Epistolarity in Lauren Myracle’s Internet Girls Series

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VI
3. Introduction to this Volume 1
4. Part I: Contemporary Epistolary Fiction: New Approaches
5. Epistolarity. Theoretical and Generic Preliminaries 15
6. Part II: The Epistolary Short Story
7. The Epistolary Short Story and the Representation of History 47
8. Enveloped in Epistolary Illusion. The Aesthetics of Reading and Writing Letters in Selected Short Stories by Alice Munro 73
9. Epistolarity in Twenty-First Century Nigerian Short Fiction 91
10. Wish I Was There. Economies of Communication in Annie Proulx’s Postcards and “Brokeback Mountain” 107
11. Part III: The Contemporary Epistolary Novel
12. Epistolary Forms as Semiotic and Generic Modes in the Multimodal Novel 125
13. Isolation, Participation and Communication in Young Adult Unidirectional Epistolary Fiction 143
14. From Ireland with Love: The Use of Epistolary Writing in Cecelia Ahern’s Fiction 159
15. An Open Letter to Nick Bantock OR Letters and/as Ephemera(l): Desire, Transposition and Transpoetic Possibility with/in Epistolary Form 181
16. The Epistolary Revenant: Teaching Against Linearity 193
17. Part IV: Literature and Electronic Correspondence
18. E-Mail Epistlemologies 211
19. Stuplimity and Quick Media Epistolarity in Lauren Myracle’s Internet Girls Series 227
20. In the Age of Vlogging: Functions of the Letter in YouTubers’ Fiction and Non-Fiction 243
21. E-pistolary Novels and Networks: Registering Formal Shifts between Henry Fielding’s Shamela (1741) and Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story (2010) 261
22. The Right Sort of Form for “The Right Sort”: David Mitchell’s Tweet-Story 277
23. Contributors 289
24. Index 293