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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 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.
Price: $40.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date:
27 March 2019
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837645378
Format: Paperback
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Evgenia Iliopoulou born in 1986, lives in Zurich, Switzerland, and specializes in narratology, theory of literature and interdisciplinary approaches within Comparative Literature. She holds an undergraduate degree in Greek Philology from her hometown University of Patras, Greece, and an MA in Comparative Literature from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. In 2014, during her doctoral studies, Zurich University sponsored her participation in the summer session of School of Theory and Criticism at Cornell University in the US.
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