Telling Anxiety : Anxious Narration in the Work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Herbert /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Willging, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Colección:University of Toronto Romance Series
Temas:
Anne Hébert.
Annie Ernaux.
Marguerite Duras.
Nathalie Sarraute.
cultural anxieties.
industrialization.
literary agency.
non-linguistic phenomena.
obstacles.
population shifts.
post-Second World War.
twentieth century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Narrative Anxiety, Narrative Desire
  • Part One: Narrating the Self, Narrating the Other
  • 1. '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 Death
  • 3. The Anxiety of Influence and the Urge to Originate: Nathalie Sarraute's Entre la vie et la mort
  • 4. The Sound of the Semiotic: Anne Hébert's Les fous de Bassan
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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