'Writing through the flowers' : challenges to epistolary tradition in letters from the Gulag (1930-38)
When literary critics examine letters, they focus mainly on epistolary fiction and fictional letters. Few have considered actual letters embedded in authentic socio-cultural contexts. In this thesis, I examine a corpus of 461 letters written by thirty-three family groups of Russian Mennonites (1930...
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University of Sheffield
2008
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489656 |