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The Art of the Nouveau Roman in The Driver’s Seat

International Journal of Social Science Studies

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Title The Art of the Nouveau Roman in The Driver’s Seat
 
Creator Dai, Hongbin
Liu, Xiying
 
Description This article focuses on Muriel Spark’s art of the nouveau roman in The Driver’s Seat. It probes into the nature of the nouveau roman, the major concerns of its advocates, and the relation between the nouveau roman and postmodernism. Then it tackles with the presentation of the protagonist, the descriptions of the places, monotonous behaviour of the characters and the purposeful design of the lack of syntactical variety. Finally, it discusses the disruption of the sequential plot. With the impersonal narration and the rejection of the sequential plot, Spark’s The Driver’s Seat shows the typical features of the nouveau roman as well as the postmodernist fiction and turns out to be a brilliant success.
 
Publisher Redfame Publishing
 
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Date 2015-12-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/1244
10.11114/ijsss.v4i1.1244
 
Source International Journal of Social Science Studies; Vol 4, No 1 (2016); 67-76
2324-8041
2324-8033
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/1244/1225