A term with a broad meaning, used to describe the whole frame in which the action of the literary work takes place. It does not refer simply to the tangible background of the writing, as it also encompasses cultural and historical context.
Published in Chapter:
The Story of the Unborn: Fetal Narrators in Pascal Bruckner, Chinghiz Aitmatov, and Ian McEwan's Novels
Marta Teodora Boboc (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6605-3.ch017
Abstract
This chapter focuses on a relatively new kind of narrative, concerning storytelling from inside the womb as it offers an inner perspective on both outside social matters and on the first stage of life as well. The author of the given chapter aims to explore the specific features of such a narrative, by comparing the novels of three writers, Pascal Bruckner, Chinghiz Aitmatov, and Ian McEwan, that belong to three different cultural spaces, French, Kyrgyz, and English. The basic elements of a story (plot, setting, characters, point of view, theme, symbolism, conflict, and resolution) are taken into account and their contrastive analysis is meant to reveal some key concepts that define an innovative way to approach literature.