Self-redemption in Ian McEwan’s Saturday开题报告

 2022-08-02 10:40:52

1. 研究目的与意义

Post-911 literature, infusing the historical reflection with ethical interrogation, has become a unique literature genre in the 21st century. They are urban mourning songs depicting the disaster experience of ordinary people, or criticizing the misery brought by violence, hatred and terror in an era of globalization. Ian McEwan’s Saturday is a representative work of post-911 literature which has been unanimously praised by readers and critics.

Ian McEwan is one of the contemporary British novelists with a strong sense of social responsibility. Ian McEwan’s Saturday is typically read as a novel about the everyday fears and constant worries that enter many people’s lives in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. The burning plane that opens the novel causes protagonist Henry Perowne to think of terrorism and to embody the pervasive sense of insecurity in the post-9/11 era. The study of this novel will help us know better the British social status and the mentality of British people after 911.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

Though critical emphasis is usually put on violent terrorism, there’s another equally important aspect of this rich and multifaceted work: the awakening of humanistic care, people’s yearning for peaceful life and self-redemption in this troubled modern world. By analyzing minds of different characters and the collision between technology and art, the paper aims to study self-redemption in post-911 literature.

The essay focuses on the spiritual self-salvation in the novel. This essay is divided into four parts. Chapter one is mainly about the literature review and current studies of Saturday. Besides, it tells us what is post-911 literature, and it includes a brief introduction of the purpose of studying post-911 literature. Chapter two consists of two parts, which mainly show the dystopian world in the novel and memories about idyllic life. Chapter three will be related to self-redemption of people in the turbid world. Chapter four makes a summary of the essay and the expectation of the self-redemption in the post-911 world.

3. 国内外研究现状

In recent years, great achievements have been made by scholars both at home and abroad in the studies of Ian McEwan as well as his works. As a witness of 911 Event, Ian McEwan, in so many of his works, is concerned about the terrorism around the world. Many papers talk about the effect of September 11 Attack on the British society in the novel Saturday. The '9.11' incident not only brought psychological trauma and anxiety to the British people, but also cast a shadow on the normal communication between the western people and the Arab people. Terrorist activities have aroused mutual suspicion between western people and Arabs. There are many papers focusing on the spiritual trauma of British people. An American scholar Michael L. Ross focuses on people’s mental stress brought by terrorism in his work On a Darkling Planet: Ian McEwan''s Saturday and the Condition of England. In China, many scholars also did a lot of researches on the view of terrorism’s impacts. Zhu Xiaoqing from the Hunan University of Science and Technology has presented in her paper “The writing of western modern society in post mechanization Era in Saturday” that people’s attitude and lifestyle have been changed due to global terrorism.

This novel was written after the Iraq War started, and topics of Saturday are related to terrorism and dystopian reality world. Chinese scholar Su Chen has studied in his work, Thoughts on the shadow of terrorist attack in western society in Ian McEwan’s Saturday, the intellectual cyncism and the utopian imagination of the liberalism which are thought to tacitly approve terrorism. But he also mentioned the antidote of terrorism may be the empathy of art which can be deduced from the plot in the novel that the maniac Baxter got saved from Dover Beach.

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4. 计划与进度安排

Outline

Chapter Ⅰ. Brief introduction

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5. 参考文献

[1] Adams, A. (2012). Mr. McEwan and Mrs. Woolf: how a Saturday in February follows 'this moment of June'. Contemporary Literature, 25, 548-572.

[2] Anker, E. (2011). Allegories of falling and the 9/11 novel. American Literary History, 20, 463-482.

[3] Ferguson, F. (2007). The way we love now: Ian McEwan, Saturday, and personal affection in the information age. Representations, 11, 42-52.

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