Round 10: Tossup 12

A proto-feminist work of this type was written after a critique of its author was made under the name Sister Filotea. In a poem that Ezra Pound framed as one of these works, the speaker reminisces on “While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead.” (10[1])That poem styled as one of these works is Lǐ Bái’s “The River Merchant’s Wife.” The story of Abelard and Héloïse was first preserved (-5[1])in these works. A namesake Enlightenment-era “republic” of scholars shared these works, an infamous “open” example of which was published by Émile Zola. (10[1])These works are used (10[1])to frame epistolary novels. For 10 points, (10[1])many poets have written the “love” type of what correspondences? ■END■ (10[1])

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