“自我”的复得：论《长日留痕》中的不可靠叙述教育学原理专业论文.docxVIP

Abstract Kazuo Ishiguro is a famous Japanese-born English novelist in 20th century. He is regarded as one of the Three Migrant Giants in British literature, along with the other two —— Salman Rushdie and V.S.Naipaul. He shows special understanding on literature and art. All his novels have different styles. The subjects of his novels include the noble family in Europe, the modern China, Japan, and biotechnology experiment in the late 1990s in England. Kazuo Ishiguro is not a productive writer and until now he has only published six novels, but all of them have received great concerns from readers and critics, in which The Remains of the Day is the most famous one. The Remains of the Day wins him Booker Prize Winner of 1989 and was listed on the Publishers Weekly as one of the best sellers. The artistic features of The Remains of the Day have attracted more and more attention from the readers and critics. Among the artistic features, the unreliable narration is the most prominent one. There are a few studies on The Remains of the Day, but people haven’t studied the theme from the angle of unreliable narration. This thesis explores the unreliability of Stevens’s narration in The Remains of the Day by adopting Wayne Booth and James Phelan’s theory on the unreliable to reveal the rhetorical effects of such narration on the ethical positioning of the implied author, the implied reader and the narrator himself. The body of this thesis is divided into four chapters. In the part of Introduction, there is some information about the writer, the novel, and some reviews on the studies of this novel, including some comments from the literary critics. Chapter One mainly deals with the theoretical basis used to analyze Steven’s unreliable narration, especially the unreliable narration theories of Wayne Booth and James Phelan. Chapter Two discusses the relationship between the narrative techniques and the unreliable narration and the detailed analysis of Stevens’s unreliab