In Waterland,contemporary British writer Graham Swift tells the protagonist Tom,using a mix of reality and history recreates the ecological devastation of the Fens Marsh,the fall of the Atkinson family and the spiritu...In Waterland,contemporary British writer Graham Swift tells the protagonist Tom,using a mix of reality and history recreates the ecological devastation of the Fens Marsh,the fall of the Atkinson family and the spiritual collapse of the people.This paper attempts to explore the dilemma of human existence by starting from Henry’s spatial theory and dividing it into physical space,social space and mental space.展开更多
The semi-autobiographical novel Waterland by twentieth-century British writer Graham Swift has been recognized as a popular work by British literary critics.Under the guidance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the liter...The semi-autobiographical novel Waterland by twentieth-century British writer Graham Swift has been recognized as a popular work by British literary critics.Under the guidance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope,this paper analyses both the various types of chronotope in the novel as well as the author’s historical view between different times and spaces through the dialogue.展开更多
文摘In Waterland,contemporary British writer Graham Swift tells the protagonist Tom,using a mix of reality and history recreates the ecological devastation of the Fens Marsh,the fall of the Atkinson family and the spiritual collapse of the people.This paper attempts to explore the dilemma of human existence by starting from Henry’s spatial theory and dividing it into physical space,social space and mental space.
文摘The semi-autobiographical novel Waterland by twentieth-century British writer Graham Swift has been recognized as a popular work by British literary critics.Under the guidance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope,this paper analyses both the various types of chronotope in the novel as well as the author’s historical view between different times and spaces through the dialogue.
