Event Host: Department of English and Project Narrative
Short Description: Shang Biwu of Shanghai Jiao Tong University will be giving a presentation entitled "Ethics in Contest: Narrative Progression and Ethical Epiphany in Ian McEwan's The Children Act."
Shang Biwu of Shanghai Jiao Tong University will be giving a presentation entitled "Ethics in Contest: Narrative Progression and Ethical Epiphany in Ian McEwan's The Children Act."
Shang Biwu is a Distinguished Fellow of English at Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Fellow of the National Humanities Center, US; and editor-in-chief of Frontiers of Narrative Studies. His areas of research include narrative theory, ethical literary criticism and twenty-first century fiction. He has published In Pursuit of Narrative Dynamics (2011) and Contemporary Western Narratology: Postclassical Perspectives (2013) as well as about seventy articles, critical notes and book reviews in journals including Style, Language and Literature, Journal of Literary Semantics and Modern Fiction Studies.
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