Truth in Fictional Text: Howards End

• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: Seogkwang Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제13집 2호, 261~277쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.12.30

영문 초록

This paper investigates the evolution taking place in the rhetoric strategies through which truth is articulated in Howards End. Forster's narrators do not seem to attain absolute authority because they are so playful and incisive that even their serious comments can lead to an ironic reading and a provisional truth. Thus this paper suggests that the element of self-referentiality plays an important part in Forster's narratives. The utterance of each character in this novel has Forster's representations of dialogue, an aspect of novelistic skill for which he is particularly well known, maintains a consistency of idiom and tone which conveys the impression of realistic characters. The characters by deploying the dialogue, reported speech and free indirect style, running through the narratorial discourse deliver a joy of subtlety in the novel. Bearing this in mind, this paper look into explicit expressions of values presented as truths, and demonstrates how Forster, without harming his complex narratives, proposes certain ideas.

키워드

fictional irony metaphor metaphysical rhetorical provisional