Jennifer Willging

Telling Anxiety

Anxious Narration in the Work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Hébert

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780802092762
• ISBN-10: 0802092764
• Artikelnr.: 22762045

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Willging is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian at Ohio State University.

Inhaltsangabe

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