Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling
Bände/Inhalt:
- Frontmatter --
- Preface --
- Table of Contents --
- Prologue --
- The Second-Person Enigma --
- Theory --
- Person --
- Pronoun --
- The Rhetoric of the Second Person --
- 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 --
- Overview --
- Methodology --
- Observations Regarding the First Part --
- Observations Regarding the Second Part --
- Impact and Continuity --
- Limitations of This Study --
- List of Works Cited
- 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.