{"product_id":"telling-anxiety-anxious-narration-in-the-work-of-marguerite-duras-annie-ernaux-nathalie-sarraute-and-anne-herbert-paperback-softback-9781487523688","title":"Telling Anxiety; Anxious Narration in the Work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Herbert (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487523688","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTelling Anxiety\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAnxious Narration in the Work of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Herbert\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer Willging (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487523688\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom two world wars to rapid industrialization and population shifts, events of the twentieth century engendered cultural anxieties to an extent hitherto unseen, particularly in Europe. In \u003cem\u003eTelling Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e, Jennifer Willging examines manifestations of such anxieties in the selected narratives of four women writing in French – Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Annie Ernaux, and Anne Hébert. Willging demonstrates that the anxieties inherent in these women's works (whether attributed to characters, narrators, or implied authors) are multiple in nature and relate to a general post-Second World War scepticism about the power of language to express non-linguistic phenomena such as the destruction and loss of life that a large portion of Europe endured during that period.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWillging maintains that while these women writers are profoundly wary of language and its artificiality, they eschew the radical linguistic scepticism of many post-war male writers and theorists. Rather, she argues, the anxiety that these four writers express stems less from a loss of faith in language's referential function than from a culturally ingrained doubt about their own ability as women to make language reflect certain realities. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eTelling Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e shows the crippling obstacles of literary agency for women in the twentieth century from the perspective of those who fully understood the significant responsibility of their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Narrative Anxiety, Narrative Desire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART ONE: NARRATING THE SELF, NARRATING THE OTHER\u003cbr\u003e1 \u0026amp;#x2018;Truth\u0026amp;#x2019; in Memory and Narrative: Marguerite Duras\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u0026amp;#x2018;Monsieur X. dit ici Pierre Rabier\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003cbr\u003e2 Shame in Memory and Narrative: Annie Ernaux\u0026amp;#x2019;s La honte\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART TWO: NARRATING LIFE, NARRATING DEATH\u003cbr\u003e3 The Anxiety of Influence and the Urge to Originate: Nathalie Sarraute\u0026amp;#x2019;s Entre la vie et la mort\u003cbr\u003e4 The Sound of the Semiotic: Anne Hébert\u0026amp;#x2019;s Les fous de Bassan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735678546200,"sku":"9781487523688","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/telling-anxiety-anxious-narration-in-the-work-of-marguerite-duras-annie-ernaux-nathalie-sarraute-and-anne-herbert-paperback-softback-9781487523688","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}