A Narrative Study on Jennifer Egans Early Fiction
The Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egans first novel published in 1995, has started her novel-writing career. It focuses on an eighteen-year-old girl Phoebe who has always been haunted by the mysterious death of her hippie older sister and was attracted by the 1960s generation, searching for her own identity. Egans second fiction, Look at Me, focuses on the stories of two Charlottes who are searching for their true selves. This paper explores the narrative strategies in Egans early fictions, and points out that by mainly employing internal focalization, Egans first fiction reflects the influence the 1960s counterculture had brought to the protagonists; in Look at Me, Egan adopts alternative narratives to tell the stories of characters. In the process of first-person narrative, Egan uses unreliable first-person narrative to tell the story of the protagonist. This paper concludes that Egans early fictions deal with issues around the image culture, examining the role of media representation in the 1960s counterculture as well as demonstrating eloquently how often fiction, in its visionary form, speaks of truth.
Jennifer Egan The Invisible Circus Look at Me narrative image culture
Baoyu Nie
School of Foreign Studies Henan Agricultural University Zhengzhou,China 450002
国际会议
厦门
英文
276-286
2016-12-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）