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Love and Care for Strangers in Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach

Hsu, Shou-Nan

Journal of language, literature and culture (Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association), 2014-08, Vol.61 (2), p.101-116 [同儕審閱期刊]

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Love and Care for Strangers in Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach
著者: Hsu, Shou-Nan
主題: 1900-1999 ; Alain Badiou ; Authors ; Badiou, Alain ; construction ; English Literature ; event ; Ian McEwan ; Love ; McEwan, Ian ; miscommunication ; mutual understanding ; novel ; On Chesil Beach ; otherness ; Relationships ; social conventions ; stranger ; Strangers ; Twentieth Century
所屬期刊: Journal of language, literature and culture (Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association), 2014-08, Vol.61 (2), p.101-116
描述: Shortlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize, Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach has received considerable academic attention, although to date there are few critical essays that address the novel. In particular, the author's concern with people's failure to love each other, miscommunication, and the problem of hospitality to strangers has not received the attention it deserves. In this novel, McEwan examines why two lovers fail to love each other, and, by extension, why people fail to do justice to strangers. In presenting a disastrous wedding night in 1962, he exposes love as a construction on both sides and points out the causes of its failure as well as impediments to mutual understanding. Via the implied narrator who delves into the pasts and minds of the central characters, McEwan indicates the importance of keeping love alive and how to better understand each other. He also makes the lovers' problem resonate with people's relationships to strangers, and shows that, in order to respect their own lives and those of others-to achieve a form of coexistence beneficial to all-people should go beyond their obsession with identity and instead care for and try to understand others.
出版者: Routledge
語言: 英文
識別號: ISSN: 2051-2856
ISSN: 2051-2864
EISSN: 2051-2864
DOI: 10.1179/2051285614Z.00000000033
資源來源: Taylor & Francis:Master (3349 titles)
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