Memories and Stories Redefining the Past and History in Julian Barnes’s the Sense of an Ending

Elisabeta Simona Catană

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Memories and Stories Redefining the Past and History in Julian Barnes’s the Sense of an Ending

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 17 (2020): Issue 1 (December 2020)

By: Elisabeta Simona Catană

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|Jan 2021

Abstract

This essay analyses Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending and argues that the concepts of the past and history are redefined by the narrator’s subjective memories and stories in a postmodernist manner. This essay shows that the past is reread as a letter and as a diary fragment which ask for the readers’ various interpretations regarding their absolute truth.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2020-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0428 | Journal ISSN: 1584-3734

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Language: English

Page range: 8 - 15

Published on: Jan 5, 2021

Published by: West University of Timisoara

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

history,

memories,

the past,

stories

Related subjects:

Linguistics and semiotics,

Theoretical frameworks and disciplines,

Linguistics, other,

Germanic languages,

English

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Volume 17 (2020): Issue 1 (December 2020)