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Ian McEwan's Novels and Narrative Ethics
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As a writer of deep ethical sensibility, Ian McEwan has grappled with the moral issues of his time throughout his novels. Also his quest for an ethical vision is accompanied by an acute sense of the problematic nature of narrative and its ethical implications. Keeping in view the 'ethical turn' of literary criticism since the late 1980s and its increasing attentiveness to narrative ethics, this paper aims to examine the ethical dimensions of narrative explored in his recent two novels, Enduring Love and Atonement, each of which is conspicuously self-reflexive. Enduring Love brings to the fore both the vital role of storytelling in all human sense-making activities and the epistemological problems that disturbingly undermine the status of narrative as a transparent medium of truth. While sharing the postmodern incredulity towards the grand narratives, this novel doesn't give way to the postmodern relativistic view of truth in that the narrative of the first person narrator, Joe, though not free from self-interest and guilt, turns out to be basically right and reliable, and that truth gradually takes shape in the polyphony of various competing narrative voices. Atonement probes and extends the ethical capacities of the novel narrative with the growing process of the author-heroine being enacted in the novel-within-the-novel. By the unexpected turn of its coda, however, it raises subtle questions about the dubious moral status of authorship, and about the novel form as an inherently moral medium. As a result, the novel is illumined as a peculiar space in which the ethical possibility and impossibility paradoxically coexist.
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As a writer of deep ethical sensibility, Ian McEwan has grappled with the moral issues of his time throughout his novels. Also his quest for an ethical vision is accompanied by an acute sense of the problematic nature of narrative and its ethical implications. Keeping in view the 'ethical turn' of literary criticism since the late 1980s and its increasing attentiveness to narrative ethics, this paper aims to examine the ethical dimensions of narrative explored in his recent two novels, Enduring Love and Atonement, each of which is conspicuously self-reflexive. Enduring Love brings to the fore both the vital role of storytelling in all human sense-making activities and the epistemological problems that disturbingly undermine the status of narrative as a transparent medium of truth. While sharing the postmodern incredulity towards the grand narratives, this novel doesn't give way to the postmodern relativistic view of truth in that the narrative of the first person narrator, Joe, though not free from self-interest and guilt, turns out to be basically right and reliable, and that truth gradually takes shape in the polyphony of various competing narrative voices. Atonement probes and extends the ethical capacities of the novel narrative with the growing process of the author-heroine being enacted in the novel-within-the-novel. By the unexpected turn of its coda, however, it raises subtle questions about the dubious moral status of authorship, and about the novel form as an inherently moral medium. As a result, the novel is illumined as a peculiar space in which the ethical possibility and impossibility paradoxically coexist.
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