IRIS MURDOCH’S STYLE OF THE FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVE IN “UNDER THE NET”
Keywords:
“Under the Net”, first-person, perspective, personage, character, realistic narrative, fantasy.Abstract
This article is dedicated to the how Iris Murdoch uses narrative self-awareness techniques to show how the narrator constructs and participates in the story. Jake's occasional remarks also create conflicts between the need for form and the desire for freedom, implying that it is inevitable to refer to any form in her story. Iris Murdoch uses narrative self-awareness techniques to show how the narrator constructs and participates in the story. Jake's occasional remarks from “Under the Net” also create conflicts between the need for form and the desire for freedom, implying that it is inevitable to refer to any form in her story.
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Lodge, David. The Modes of Modern Writing. London: Edward Arnold, 1977.p-40
Murdoch, Iris. Under the Net. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954.p-20,60,228
