Annie Ernaux [electronic resource] : The Return to Origins
McIlvanney, Siobhán.
McIlvanney, Siobhâan.Author
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2001.
In this first critical study in English to focus exclusively on Annie Ernaux's writing trajectory, Siobhán McIlvanney provides a stimulating and challenging analysis of Ernaux's individual texts. Following a broadly feminist hermeneutic, this study engages in a series of provocative close readings of Ernaux's works in a move to highlight the contradictions and nuances in her writing, and to demonstrate the intellectual intricacies of her literary project. By so doing, it seeks to introduce new readers to Ernaux's works, while engaging on less familiar terrain those already familiar with her wr
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Con/textualising the Corpus; 1: The Early Years: Classifying Sexuality in Les Armoires vides and Ce qu'ils disent ou rien; 2: The Adult Woman: Female Behaviour Paradigms in La Femme gelée and Passion simple; 3: Writing the Auto/biographical Legacies of La Place and Une femme; 4: Self/representation through the M/other in the Diaries of 'Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit', Journal du dehors and La Vie exté rieure; 5: The Return to Origins: La Honte and L'Evénement; Notes to Introduction; Bibliography; Index
In this first critical study in English to focus exclusively on Annie Ernaux's writing trajectory, Siobhán McIlvanney provides a stimulating and challenging analysis of Ernaux's individual texts. Following a broadly feminist hermeneutic, this study engages in a series of provocative close readings of Ernaux's works in a move to highlight the contradictions and nuances in her writing, and to demonstrate the intellectual intricacies of her literary project. By so doing, it seeks to introduce new readers to Ernaux's works, while engaging on less familiar terrain those already familiar with her wr
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ernaux, Annie, 1940-
Ernaux, Annie.
Romance Literatures
Languages & Literatures
French Literature