Open AccessNARRATIVE PERSPECTIVES IN THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER BY CARSON MCCULLERS
Author(s) -
Zhang Duan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cultural communication and socialization journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2735-0428
DOI - 10.26480/ccsj.01.2020.08.12
Subject(s) - narrative , loneliness , theme (computing) , perplexity , literature , dream , aesthetics , perspective (graphical) , sociology , history , psychoanalysis , art , psychology , social psychology , visual arts , computer science , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , language model , operating system
Spiritual isolation and loneliness have always been the main topic of the works of the southern American writer Carson McCullers. Her superb literary creation lies in that, she not only integrates the theme of loneliness between lines of her works, but also strongly echoes and deepens that theme by use of brilliant narrative skills. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is such a masterpiece on loneliness, decorated and permeated with exquisite narrative strategy. By means of the narrative theories of Gérard Genette and Shen Dan, and with NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE as the starting point, the present paper tries to study the unique narrative strategy framed within this work. This paper points out that, McCullers’ portray of characters from many aspects, and her narration from multiple perspectives in this work, not only greatly exalt the work’s narrative tension and aesthetic effect, but also deeply reflect the internal perplexity and solitary state of mind of those people living in American South after the Civil War.