Anne Hébert: Overview of Her Literary Style and Themes

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Marie Pascal

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

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Date of occurrence 1960-2000

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Anne Hébert (1916-2000) differs from her contemporaries, be they French or Québécois, by her writing style. Although she never was in favour of the “joual”, the sociolect exploited by Michel Tremblay, author of the famous Les Belles-sœurs (1968), her language is “accurate” and “evocative” and has been largely praised by critics (see Biron et al., 2007: 311-312). The first notable pattern of her writing is the echoing game of sounds, words, and whole sentences. If one were to read successively all her prose, one would most likely share the feeling noted by Janet Paterson (1985) with regard to Les Fous de Bassan (1982), that is, the impression of “d&…

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Citation: Pascal, Marie. "Anne Hébert: Overview of Her Literary Style and Themes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 November 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19549, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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