The Stylistics of 'You': Second-Person Pronoun and Its Pragmatic Effects

ISBN-13: 9781108833028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 280 str.

Montpellier) Sorlin Sandrine (Universite Paul Valery

Opis

Including examples from diverse sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' across time, genre and medium.

Recenzje

'Sorlin's rigorous mapping of uses of you in a wide-ranging corpus not only demonstrates the utility of her proposed model and its relevance for existing narratological frameworks and theories, but also for future interventions in diverse fields from autotheory, econarratology, trauma narratives to the recent turn against empathy in narrative studies.' Denise Wong, Diegesis

Spis treści

1. Theorising the 'you effects'; Part I. Singularising and Sharing: the Dialectics of 'You': 2. George Orwell's Down and out in Paris and London (1933): Putting yourself in the shoes of a tramp; 3. Paul Auster's ordinary life and yours: blendable singularities?; Part II. The Role of 'You' in the Writing of Traumatic Events: 4. Performing 'self-othering' in Winter Birds (1994) by Jim Grimsley; 5. Pronominal 'veering' in Quilt (2010) by Nicholas Royle; Part III. The Author-Reader Channel across Time, Tender, Sex and Race: 6. Two ways of conversing with the reader; 7. Empathy for sexual minorities in Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett (2007); 8. The ethics and politics of the second person in 'postcolonial' writing; Part IV. New Ways of Implicating through the Digital Medium?: 9. From paratext to hypertext: interactivity revisited; 10. Coercing without edifying: Kevin Spacey's 2018 'Creepy' YouTube video explained; Conclusion; References; Index.