THE UNIVERSAL PANDEMIC OF VIOLENCE: A NARRATOLOGICAL READING OF LAN MCEWAN

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PAYANDEH HOSSEIN

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Journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES (THE JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES) Year:2004 | Volume:11 | Issue:1 Page(s): 23-30

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THE UNIVERSAL PANDEMIC OF VIOLENCE: A NARRATOLOGICAL READING OF LAN MCEWAN"S BLACK DOGS

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NARRATOLOGYQ4

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Abstract

This paper aims to offer a critical reading of the contemporary English author lan McEwans fifth novel entitled Black Dogs (1992). I postulate that literary critics have frequently read his fiction for what it is not. As such, McEwans thought-provoking engagement with cultural questions has more often than not gone unexamined owing to a critical blueprint that, reducing his oeuvre to the topoi of violence, or to a gallery of obnoxious characters branded as psychopaths, typecasts him as a writer of disturbing, salacious fiction. Arguing that McEwan writes to dissect and criticise contemporary culture, I offer a reading of his novel as a literary intervention into a cultural debate. I argue that of crucial importance in McEwans novel is the question of the narrative structure through which the different segments of Black Dogs are recounted. Drawing on the narratological concepts and terminology introduced in the works of Gerard Genette and Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, I examine the complexities of the narrative discourses of McEwans novel and its interlinking thematic analogies. Based on this reading, I conclude that McEwans intervention in the ongoing cultural debates of today makes of him a severe critic of our time.

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PAYANDEH, HOSSEIN. (2004). THE UNIVERSAL PANDEMIC OF VIOLENCE: A NARRATOLOGICAL READING OF LAN MCEWAN"S BLACK DOGS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES (THE JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES), 11(1), 23-30. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/78215/en

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PAYANDEH HOSSEIN. THE UNIVERSAL PANDEMIC OF VIOLENCE: A NARRATOLOGICAL READING OF LAN MCEWAN"S BLACK DOGS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES (THE JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES)[Internet]. 2004;11(1):23-30. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/78215/en

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HOSSEIN PAYANDEH, “THE UNIVERSAL PANDEMIC OF VIOLENCE: A NARRATOLOGICAL READING OF LAN MCEWAN"S BLACK DOGS,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES (THE JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES), vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 23–30, 2004, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/78215/en

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