1. Years and Years: The Distribution of the Sensible in Woolf and Ernaux.
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O'Leary, Timothy
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LITERATURE , *SENSITIVITY (Personality trait) - Abstract
Both Virginia Woolf and Annie Ernaux, in their respective works titled The Years, undertake an exploration of the shifting experience of women across two different periods of profound historical change. Reading the texts through the lens of Jacques Rancière's concept of the "distribution of the sensible," allows us ask to what extent works of literature such as these not only trace the shifting elements of a particular distribution of the sensible, but also provoke a change in that distribution by destabilizing and disrupting the smooth, unthought continuance of any such distribution. In doing so, we can attain a greater understanding of the complex historical determiners of individual experience and evaluate the possibility of undermining and overcoming those ingrained modes of experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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