Analysing the status of correspondence in seventeenth-century memoirs, this study shows how the letter can represent the past and remodel an experience of time. As a symbol of the density of reality, a relic, and as a scar of action, the letter becomes part of the poetics of the memoir.
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Analysing the status of correspondence in seventeenth-century memoirs, this study shows how the letter can represent the past and remodel an experience of time. As a symbol of the density of reality, a relic, and as a scar of action, the letter becomes part of the poetics of the memoir.
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