Telling anxiety

Description:

"From 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 Telling Anxiety, 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 Hebert. 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."--Jacket.

subjects: Anxiety in literature,  Criticism and interpretation,  French fiction,  French prose literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Narration (Rhetoric),  Critique et interprétation,  Narration,  Histoire,  Angoisse dans la littérature,  Roman français,  Histoire et critique,  Prose française,  French literature, women authors,  French literature, history and criticism,  Canadian literature - literary criticism,  Women authors - general & miscellaneous - literary criticism,  Psychology & literature,  20th century french literature - literary criticism

People: Anne Hébert,  Annie Ernaux (1940-),  Marguerite Duras,  Nathalie Sarraute

Times: 20th century