서술기법을 통한 미국소설 읽기사례 연구

A Research on Reading Cases of American Novels Viewed from Narrative Techniques

The purpose of this study is to perform a research on reading cases of American novels from the view point of the unique narrative techniques used by some major American novelists. The novels include a variety of American noels in th 19th & 20th century such as The Power of Sympathy(1789), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838), Benito Cereno(l855),Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,(IS85), The Portrait of a Lady(1881), The Great Gatsby (1925), The Sound and the Fury(1931), The Grapes of Wrath(1939), Slaughterhouse-Five(1969), and Ceremony (1977), which are examined in the recently published book titled as American Novels and Narrative Techniques(2014). Most of the novels dealt with in this book use a variety kinds of narrative techniques to convey their own thematic voices. Those narrative techniques comprise the stream of consciousness, flashback, metafiction, ambiguity, symbolism, romance, and irony.