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- Title
How to Understand the Ethical Expression of Literary Events : A Review of A Study of Ian McEwan's Novels and Their Ethical Value.
- Authors
Zhang Lianqiao
- Abstract
As one of the most influential British writers in contemporary times, McEwan has won the recognition of both academia and market with his superb narrative skills and continuous concern for morality and ethics of the current society. Based on this feature of McEwan, Professor Shang Biwu puts forward the important assertion of "Narrative Art and Ethical Ideology" in his new book A Study of Ian McEwan's novels and their Ethical Values. Through a systematic study of McEwan's novels, Professor Shang invokes the Ethical Literary Criticism to discuss the issue of events in the novels and the storytelling behind them, incorporating many narratological elements such as narrator, narrated, narrative focus, implied authorship, unreliable narrative, unnatural narrative and so on into his writing, taking the ethical loss of young characters, the ethical confusion of middle-aged characters and the ethical redemption of old characters as the starting points to conduct in-depth analysis, so as to present the complete narrative purpose and ethical landscape of McEwan's creations.
- Subjects
MCEWAN, Ian, 1942-; VALUES (Ethics); LITERARY criticism; NARRATIVE art; FICTION; STORYTELLING; ACADEMIA
- Publication
Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, 2024, Vol 8, Issue 1, p174
- ISSN
2520-4920
- Publication type
Article