전후 영국의 전환과 문학: 이언 매큐언의 『체실 비치에서』의 개인과 사회
Post-war British Transition and Literature: The Individual and the Social in McEwan's On Chesil Beach
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Ian McEwan, whose standing has been firm since 1970s not only in the literary but also popular readership, unravels the post-war British identity with his acutely economical and dramatically aesthetic language. His 2007 novel On Chesil Beach portrays the British society since 1940s, focusing on a couple whose marriage and subsequent failure would be the main narrative point. The relationship at the crossroads may represent the uncertainty in the formation of the new national and cultural status, and furthermore their separate lives since their first and last physical union portray the split and slippery identity at crisis in the post-Thatcher, post-consensus era. It is to offer contemporary readers an opportunity to identify themselves with the characters, which the author anticipates would be a stepping-stone for the awakening of morality embedded in human nature. The discourses on the narrative ethics of the novel genre are yet under examination, and will be, especially when it is threatened by a major 21th century narrative form, film; however, given the persisting human hunger for narratives and the need for social expression remain, we may as well look forward to the optimistic key words for humanity in literary criticism. In this respect, Ian McEwan's literary attempt to demonstrate the intra and intertextual relationship between the social and individual, and to grasp the ungraspable identity is to be highly redeemed.
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Ian McEwan, whose standing has been firm since 1970s not only in the literary but also popular readership, unravels the post-war British identity with his acutely economical and dramatically aesthetic language. His 2007 novel On Chesil Beach portrays the British society since 1940s, focusing on a couple whose marriage and subsequent failure would be the main narrative point. The relationship at the crossroads may represent the uncertainty in the formation of the new national and cultural status, and furthermore their separate lives since their first and last physical union portray the split and slippery identity at crisis in the post-Thatcher, post-consensus era. It is to offer contemporary readers an opportunity to identify themselves with the characters, which the author anticipates would be a stepping-stone for the awakening of morality embedded in human nature. The discourses on the narrative ethics of the novel genre are yet under examination, and will be, especially when it is threatened by a major 21th century narrative form, film; however, given the persisting human hunger for narratives and the need for social expression remain, we may as well look forward to the optimistic key words for humanity in literary criticism. In this respect, Ian McEwan's literary attempt to demonstrate the intra and intertextual relationship between the social and individual, and to grasp the ungraspable identity is to be highly redeemed.
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