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The article shows that Werther's love is closely connected to notions of postal communication, such as address, distance and circulation. It refers to theories by Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Lacan.
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Reading Werther's love as constitutively 'postal' sheds new light on the fact that Goethe's Werther is an epistolary novel. The question of genre has long been neglected in discussions of Werther's love.
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This page is a summary of: Werthers verbriefte Liebe, Arcadia - International Journal for Literary Studies, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2017-0007.
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