The Poetics of Elusive History: Marguerite Duras, War Traumas, and the Dilemmas of Literary Representation

The Poetics of Elusive History: Marguerite Duras, War Traumas, and the Dilemmas of Literary Representation

This article examines the relationship between minimalist storytelling and literary representation. In the case of Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour , the author shows that the preference for simple sentences, ellipsis, and parataxis over elaborate syntactic...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2009. - 107(2012), 4, Seite 1064-1081
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Veröffentlicht: 2012
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Schlagworte:Behavioral sciences History Political science Social sciences Arts
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