NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE IN THE EARLY NOVELS OF PIERS PAUL READ
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE IN THE EARLY NOVELS OF PIERS PAUL READ
Author(s): Teresa BelaSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: Catholic novel; irony in fiction; political and historical fiction; social satire; unreliable narrator
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the narrative methods and the role of the narrator in three novels by P. P. Read: Game in Heaven with Tussy Marx (1966), The Junkers (1968) and Monk Dowson (1969). The general analysis of the texts is meant to illustrate how the changes in narrative method and perspective help to unveil some of the main ideological issues of the twentieth century, as well as the dilemmas of the modern man, caught between the dangers of ideological commitment and moral nihilism.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 14
- Page Range: 161-170
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
