{"product_id":"the-ferrante-letters-an-experiment-in-collective-criticism-9780231194570","title":"The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives, four critics embarked upon a project that was both work and play: to create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Ferrante's work and her fictional world, Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Jill Richards strike a tone at once critical and personal, achieving a way of talking about literature that falls between the seminar and the book club. Their letters make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all literary criticism and also illuminate the authors' lives outside the academy. \u003ci\u003eThe Ferrante Letters\u003c\/i\u003e offers an improvisational, collaborative, and cumulative model for reading and writing with others, proposing a new method the authors call collective criticism. A book for fans of Ferrante and for literary scholars seeking fresh modes of intellectual exchange, \u003ci\u003eThe Ferrante Letters\u003c\/i\u003e offers incisive criticism, insouciant riffs, and the pleasure of giving oneself over to an extended conversation about fiction with friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Chihaya is assistant professor of English at Princeton University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMerve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eThe Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatherine Hill is assistant professor of English at Adelphi University. She is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Violet Hour\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eA Short Move\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJill Richards is assistant professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298369798418,"sku":"9780231194570","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4164db87-fc24-435f-8449-e71351cfb2e9.jpg?v=1747817828","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ferrante-letters-an-experiment-in-collective-criticism-9780231194570","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}