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• W156856204 abstract "A necdotes about the attribution of the Lettres portugaises have become almost a commonplace in literary publication, a witty lead-in to a paper or article on the history of criticism. Encyclopedias and even the most banal of literary histories include sections on L'Enigme des Lettres portugaises, with the implication that the case has been closed--after three and a half centuries of amusing critical bumbling, an empirical solution to the twin questions of attribution and authenticity has been uncovered by the stylistic analysis of Leo Spitzer, and the rigorous bibliographical sleuthing of F. Deloffre and J. Rougeot. Within its spiraling accumulation of criticism, however, the Lettres portugaises debate includes a theoretical discussion more complex and far-reaching than the simple issue of provenance. A careful examination of the discourse constructed around the enigma of the Lettres portugaises reveals the critical engagement in this question to be not only persistent, but also multifarious. The founding enigma, the empty space generative of the Lettres portugaises discourse, is the unknown origin of the letters. The birth of this mystery is simultaneous with the first edition of the Lettres portugaises published by Claude Barbin in 1669. Five letters from a lovelorn Portuguese nun to the officer who has abandoned her, the Lettres portugaises were preceded by a note from the French translator who emphatically maintains their authenticity. The translator's frame marks the interior text as a veridical and private space separate from the artifice of public discourse. In this textual frame, the translator-editor raises the issue of the text's origin but refuses to disclose specific details about the identity of the correspondents. By simultaneously alluding to and eclipsing the provenance of the letters, this preface opens the long debate regarding the origin of the text. The Lettres portugaises appear to have invited discourse and polemic from the moment of their publication. The 1669 preface is the first in a long series of explanatory frames which critics, commentators, authors and editors have constructed around the text of the five letters. Not only does the foreword explicitly raise the question of attribution, but by providing indications of key plot and stylistic elements, the preface also serves as a descriptive introduction to the five letters. The preface signals a possible reading of the volume, thus presenting the Lettres portugaises as a text which cannot stand alone, an incomplete entity inviting discussion, explanation, and definition. The mysterious origin of the five letters, however, does not seem a sufficient cause for a critical paper-storm four centuries long, especially if we consider seventeenth-century publishing practice. Even if we simplify the question by ignoring the collaborative process of salon writing, attribution of any text to a single author remains difficult. Since the privilege, or permission to publish, was registered under the name of the stationer-publisher and the title page often did not include the author's name, many seventeenth-century works are still anonymous or of problematic attribution. In fact, the author, especially if she were female, frequently preferred anonymity.(1) The unrelenting interest in the questions of creation and authenticity in the Lettres portugaises may well have been generated not by the mysterious origin of the text, but by a discourse on gender and writing inextricably connected with Lettres portugaises criticism from the start. Asking what is it? and where does it come from?, the enigma of the Lettres portugaises invites critics to define the text and simultaneously offers them an opportunity to define female writing. As one of the first epistolary novels and as a text which presents a woman's private, emotional voice, the Lettres portugaises brings together representations of sensibility, genre, gender, and style. …" @default.
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• W156856204 title "Love letters: Discourses of gender and writing in the criticism of the Lettres Portugaises" @default.
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