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Narrative Judgments and Its Ethical Implication in Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time
QU Tao
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.12.002
Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Dalian, China
As a newly developed theory, narrative ethics has its reasonability and advantages in that it can not only analyze either the contents or the forms of the texts, but also make an analysis of the combination of both contents and forms. This article, supported by James Phelan’s rhetorical narrative theory as the theoretical base, attempts to explore and interpret narrative judgments and its implied ethics existing in The Child in Time by Ian McEwan so as to observe the hidden aesthetic orientation, the value judgments and the ethical intentions of the text and help to reveal the author’s views of narrative ethics and aesthetics of the novel.
Ian McEwan, The Child in Time, rhetorical narrative, narrative judgment, ethical implication
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