Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Table of Contents
Seiten 11 - 12 -
Part 1 Introduction
Prologue
Seite 14 -
The Second-Person Enigma
Seiten 15 - 21 -
Theory
Seiten 21 - 33 -
Person
Seiten 33 - 38 -
Pronoun
Seiten 38 - 55 -
The Rhetoric of the Second Person
Seiten 55 - 80 -
Part 2 Close Reading
2.1 Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster
Seiten 83 - 120 -
2.2 Michel Butor's La Modification
Seiten 121 - 152 -
2.3 George Perec's Un homme qui dort
Seiten 153 - 186 -
2.4 Ilse Aichinger's Spiegelgeschichte
Seiten 187 - 222 -
Part 3 Assessment
Overview
Seiten 224 - 226 -
Methodology
Seiten 226 - 229 -
Observations Regarding the First Part
Seiten 229 - 233 -
Observations Regarding the Second Part
Seiten 234 - 244 -
Impact and Continuity
Seiten 244 - 245 -
Limitations of This Study
Seiten 245 - 248 -
List of Works Cited
Seiten 249 - 256
21 March 2019, 256 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4537-8
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