EAN: 9780820495255

REWRITING REWRITING - CATHY JELLENIK GEBUNDEN

Although the storytelling of any time rewrites itself  rewriting became a primary concern in
the literature of the twentieth century  an era characterized as having quoted  reenacted 
cannibalized  revised  redone  refurbished  and outright plagiarized the texts of earlier
times. The modern obsession with literary reiteration manifests itself in a rather unique way
in the narratives of Marguerite Duras  Annie Ernaux  and Marie Redonnet. These authors
systematically and repeatedly rewrite their own texts  and in so doing  give evidence of three
of the more salient aspects of twentieth-century French literature: a trend toward the
representation of multifaceted selves  a desire to reevaluate the literary paradigm  and an
acute concern for the unreliability of language. This book argues that the rewriting performed
by Duras  Ernaux  and Redonnet moves beyond the tacit rewriting that occurs in any text toward
a renovation of various features of the literary arena within which they circulate. Cathy
Jellenik argues that all writing contains rewriting - an argument grounded in the theoretical
apparatuses of Saussure  Bakhtin  Benveniste  Barthes  Kristeva  and Derrida. She then examines
and interrogates the ways in which Duras  Ernaux  and Redonnet use rewriting to question and
rethink the literary traditions they inherit. Jellenik suggests that the rewriting projects of
Duras  Ernaux  and Redonnet promise to lead them  and their readers  toward the creation of a
new literary aesthetic capable of responding to the questions of our times.

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