Pastoral and Plague: Bearing Witness to “The Fundamental Problem of Evil” in Ian McEwan's<i>Black Dogs</i>

This article intends to investigate Ian McEwan's Black Dogs from the perspective of New Historicism, focusing on the textuality of history and the historicity of text. Research shows that the textuality of history is embodied in the application of omniscient focalization and free indirect discourse presentation, while the historicity of text, crystallized in the influence of the historical background and the writer's own life experience on the novel and the reader's response to the novel. This paper concludes that the novel reflects on history through the unique reconstruction of the historical events.

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Pastoral and Plague: Bearing Witness to “The Fundamental Problem of Evil” in Ian McEwan'sBlack Dogs

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Textuality of History and Historicity of Text: New Historical Analysis of Ian McEwan’s Black Dogs

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