Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2019

9783837645378

3837645371

1 online resource (256)

Lettre

809.3923

Second Person

Narratology

Theory of Literature

Pronouns

Literature

Language

General Literature Studies

German Literature

French Literature

Literary Studies

Inglese

Frontmatter    1 Preface    5 Table of Contents    11 Prologue    14 The Second-Person Enigma    15 Theory    21 Person    33 Pronoun    38 The Rhetoric of the Second Person    55 2.1 Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster    83 2.2 Michel Butor's La Modification    121 2.3 George Perec's Un homme qui dort    153 2.4 Ilse Aichinger's Spiegelgeschichte    187 Overview    224 Methodology    226 Observations Regarding the First Part    229 Observations Regarding the Second Part    234 Impact and Continuity    244 Limitations of This Study    245 List of Works Cited    249

Second-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the

oeuvre of an author. Based on key narratives of the post-war period, Evgenia Iliopoulou approaches the phenomenon in an inductive way, starting out from the essentials of grammar and rhetoric, and aims to improve the general understanding of second-person narrative within literature. In its various forms and typologies, the second person amplifies and expands the limits of representation, thus remaining a narrative enigma: a small narrative gesture – with major narrative impact.