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- Title
The Ethics of Memory: Self-Reconstruction and Character Narration in The Sense of an Ending.
- Authors
Tang Yili
- Abstract
In The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes explores self-reconstruction and its ethical implications in the dynamics of memory by use of character narration. This article examines the narrative rhetoric and ethics of character narration in The Sense of an Ending in the broader context of rhetorical theory. It argues that Barnes’s experiment with character narration sets up interpretive and ethical traps for readers, encouraging them to initially bond with the unreliable narrator Tony but offering signs of estrangement. The indirect rhetorical mode continues Barnes’s ethical and philosophical reflection on memory as well as his humanistic exploration of life and its meaning.
- Subjects
BARNES, Julian, 1946-; NARRATION; REFLECTION (Philosophy); MEMORY; RHETORICAL theory; ETHICS; ETHICAL problems
- Publication
Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, 2022, Vol 6, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
2520-4920
- Publication type
Article