Telling Anxiety - Anxious Narration in Work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux,

Informationen zum Autor By Jennifer Willging Klappentext From two world wars to rapid industrialization and population shifts, events of the twentieth century engendered cultural anxieties to an extent hitherto unseen, particularly in Europe. In Telling Anxiety, Jennifer Willging examines manifestations of such anxieties in the selected narratives of four women writing in French. Zusammenfassung In Telling Anxiety! Jennifer Willging examines manifestations of such anxieties in the selected narratives of four women writing in French. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Narrative Anxiety, Narrative Desire PART ONE: NARRATING THE SELF, NARRATING THE OTHER1 ‘Truth’ in Memory and Narrative: Marguerite Duras’s ‘Monsieur X. dit ici Pierre Rabier’2 Shame in Memory and Narrative: Annie Ernaux’s La honte PART TWO: NARRATING LIFE, NARRATING DEATH3 The Anxiety of Influence and the Urge to Originate: Nathalie Sarraute’s Entre la vie et la mort4 The Sound of the Semiotic: Anne Hébert’s Les fous de Bassan Conclusion NotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Willging
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2007
• EAN: 9780802092762
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9276-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance; University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies