Eileen Chang’s Polyphonic Narrative in The Little Reunion

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10.2991/978-2-38476-222-4_62How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Eileen Chang; The Little Reunion; Polyphonic Narrative; The Fall of the Pagoda

Abstract

As Eileen Chang’s most summarising and generalising novel, The Little Reunion is a re-creation of her previous autobiographical works, but compared with her previous works, the narrator’s narration of similar events in The Little Reunion is diametrically opposed; at the same time, within the text, there is a contradiction between the narrator’s voice and the characters’ voices, which is a manifestation of the narrative polyphony of the work. In this paper, the author will compare and analyse the differences between The Fall of the Pagoda and The Little Reunion and conduct a detailed textual analysis of The Little Reunion to elaborate on the polyphonic narrative features of the text. Moreover, on this basis, this paper explains the reason for the great divergence in the research results of The Little Reunion about the characters’ relationship, i.e., being blinded by the characters’ seemingly single emotion and unable to comprehensively explain the limitations of the emergence of double emotions in the narrative.

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AU  - Ying Ni
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DA  - 2024/03/26
TI  - Eileen Chang’s Polyphonic Narrative in The Little Reunion
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Culture, Design and Social Development (CDSD 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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