Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling

Evgenia Iliopoulou

book: Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2019

Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling

Evgenia Iliopoulou
Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

In the series Lettre

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839445372

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Evgenia Iliopoulou born in 1986, completed her doctoral studies in 2018. She 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.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Preface Open Access Download PDF	5
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	11
Part 1 Introduction
Prologue Open Access Download PDF	14
The Second-Person Enigma Open Access Download PDF	15
Theory Open Access Download PDF	21
Person Open Access Download PDF	33
Pronoun Open Access Download PDF	38
The Rhetoric of the Second Person Open Access Download PDF	55
Part 2 Close Reading
2.1 Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster Learning to Say “I” Open Access Download PDF	83
2.2 Michel Butor’s La Modification Addressing the Unknown Open Access Download PDF	121
2.3 George Perec’s Un homme qui dort A Jigsaw Puzzle of Literary Pieces Open Access Download PDF	153
2.4 Ilse Aichinger’s Spiegelgeschichte At the End the Beginning Open Access Download PDF	187
Part 3 Assessment
Overview Open Access Download PDF	224
Methodology Open Access Download PDF	226
Observations Regarding the First Part Open Access Download PDF	229
Observations Regarding the Second Part Open Access Download PDF	234
Impact and Continuity Open Access Download PDF	244
Limitations of This Study Open Access Download PDF	245
List of Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	249

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Narratology; Theory of Literature; General Literature Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2019
ISBN: 9783839445372