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Record Nr.

UNINA9910315227703321

Autore

Iliopoulou Evgenia <1986->

Titolo

Because of you : understanding second-person storytelling / / Evgenia Iliopoulou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2019

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-8376-4537-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256)

Collana

Lettre

Disciplina

809.3923

Soggetti

Second person narrative

Academic theses.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.