{"product_id":"telling-anxiety-9781487523688","title":"Telling Anxiety","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. R\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187722412375,"sku":"9781487523688","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/telling-anxiety-9781487523688","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}