TY - BOOK AU - McIlvanney,Siobhán TI - Annie Ernaux: the return to origins T2 - Modern French writers SN - 9781846312571 AV - PQ2665.R67 Z76 2001eb U1 - 843/.914 22 PY - 2001/// CY - Liverpool PB - Liverpool University Press KW - Ernaux, Annie, KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - French KW - bisacsh KW - Romance Literatures KW - hilcc KW - Languages & Literatures KW - French Literature KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index; 1; The Early Years: Classifying Sexuality in Les Armoires vides and Ce qu'ils disent ou rien; 17 --; 2; The Adult Woman: Female Behaviour Paradigms in La Femme gelee and Passion simple; 49 --; 3; Writing the Auto/biographical Legacies of La Place and Une femme; 87 --; 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 exterieure; 117 --; 5; The Return to Origins: La Honte and L'Evenement; 153; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=242353 ER -