Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Email Romance? Elif Batuman’s The Idiot as the Narrative of an “Unloving” Relationship Cover

Email Romance? Elif Batuman’s The Idiot as the Narrative of an “Unloving” Relationship

By: Spandita Das  
Open Access
|Aug 2023

References

  1. Badiou, Alain, and Nicolas Truong. In Praise of Love. Translated by Peter Bush. Serpent’s Tail, 2012.
  2. Batuman, Elif. “Elif Batuman Interview”. Interview by Paul Laity. The Guardian, 26 May 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/26/elif-batuman-interview-novel-the-idiot. Accessed 24 March 2022.
  3. Batuman, Elif. The Idiot. Vintage, 2017.
  4. Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds. Polity, 2003.
  5. Ben-Ze’ev, Aaron. Love Online: Emotions on the Internet. Cambridge University Press, 2004. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511489785
  6. Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press, 2011. DOI: 10.1515/9780822394716
  7. Das, Spandita. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love in the Digital Age: Technology, Intimacy, and Affect in Olivia Sudjic’s Sympathy and Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2022. DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2022.2141096
  8. Durscheid, Christa, and Carmen Frehner. “Email Communication”. Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication, edited by SusanHerring, Dieter Stein and Tuija Virtanen. De Gruyter Mouton, 2013, pp. 3554. DOI: 10.1515/9783110214468.35
  9. Feigel, Lara. “The Idiot by Elif Batuman Review—books vs the world”. The Guardian, 16 Jun. 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/16/idiot-elif-batuman-review-life-lived-through-russian-novel. Accessed 1 Jan. 2022.
  10. Grady, Constance. “The Idiot is mostly about semiotics. It’s really funny.” Vox, 29 March 2017, https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/29/15072678/the-idiot-elif-batuman-review. Accessed 1 Jan. 2022.
  11. Gratzke, Michael. “The Rise and Fall of “Emotional Capitalism”: Consumerism and Materialities of Love in Dystopian Works by Thomas Melle, Leif Randt and Gary Shteyngart”. The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice, edited by Ania Malinowska and Michael Gratzke. Routledge, 2018, pp. 101117. DOI: 10.4324/9781315228631-8
  12. Haas, Lidija. “Invitation to a Rereading”. Bookforum, May 2017, https://www.bookforum.com/print/2401/elif-batuman-s-novel-explores-college-mishaps-e-mail-romance-and-the-art-of-writerly-seduction-17532. Accessed 1 Jan. 2022.
  13. Horton, Emily. ““What’s Real?”: Digital Technology and Negative Affect in Jennifer Egan’s Look at Me and The Keep. Contemporary Women’s Writing, vol. 15, no. 2, July 2021, pp. 226243. DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpab028
  14. Illouz, Eva. The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations. Oxford University Press, 2019.
  15. Illouz, Eva. Why Love Hurts. Polity, 2012.
  16. Kaufmann, Jean-Claude. Love Online. Translated by David Macey. Polity, 2012.
  17. Luhmann, Niklas. Love: A Sketch. Polity Press, 2010.
  18. Malinowska, Ania. Love in Contemporary Technoculture. Cambridge University Press, 2022. DOI: 10.1017/9781108884976
  19. Margolin, Elaine. “Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’”. The Washington Post, 1 March 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/elif-batumans-the-idiot/2017/03/01/ae9b5860-fdf3-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_story.html. Accessed 1 Jan. 2022.
  20. McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The MIT Press, 1994.
  21. Rosewarne, Lauren. Intimacy on the Internet: Media Representation of Online Connections. Routledge, 2016. DOI: 10.4324/9781315740850
  22. Sterritt, Brooks. The Idiot by Elif Batuman”. Harvard Review Online, 13 Dec. 2017, https://harvardreview.org/book-review/the-idiot/. Accessed 1 Jan. 2022.
  23. Stratton, Jon. “Not Really Desiring Bodies: The Rise and Rise of Email Affairs”. Media International Australia, no. 84, May 1997, pp. 2838. DOI: 10.1177/1329878X9708400105
  24. Townsend, Chris. “Aesthetics for Idiots: Truth and Beauty in Elif Batuman’s The Idiot. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 63, no. 5, 2022, pp. 587596. DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2020.1866482
  25. Walton, Julia M. ““Does it have to be complicated?”: Technologically Mediated Romance and Identity in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Normal People. The Foundationalist, vol. 5, no. 2, 2020, pp. 132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/as.122 | Journal eISSN: 2184-6006
Language: English
Submitted on: Jun 2, 2023
|
Accepted on: Jul 18, 2023
|
Published on: Aug 4, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2023 Spandita Das, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.