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Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Iliopoulou, Evgenia, 1986- (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2019]
Series:Lettre Ser.
Subjects:
Second person narrative.
French Literature.
General Literature Studies.
German Literature.
Language.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Narratology.
Pronouns.
Theory of Literature.
Récits à la deuxième personne.
Literary studies: general.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Second person narrative
Electronic books.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Part 1 Introduction
  • Prologue
  • The Second-Person Enigma
  • Theory
  • Person
  • Pronoun
  • The Rhetoric of the Second Person
  • Part 2 Close Reading
  • 2.1 Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster
  • 2.2 Michel Butor's La Modification
  • 2.3 George Perec's Un homme qui dort
  • 2.4 Ilse Aichinger's Spiegelgeschichte
  • Part 3 Assessment
  • Overview
  • Methodology
  • Observations Regarding the First Part
  • Observations Regarding the Second Part
  • Impact and Continuity
  • Limitations of This Study
  • List of Works Cited