Affective Narration in Little Fires Everywhere and Aesthetic Pleasure in Its Readers
Abstract
Fires Everywhere (2017), Celeste Ng pours her emotions into the novel, vividly depicts the emotional course of the girls towards love and
maturity, and sets up with her exquisite artistic techniques the sophisticated structures concerning the rewritten narrative prototype. Using
the theory of gap-filling, originated from reader-response criticism, which examines the reading process of the reader, and the concept of the
romantic love narrative prototype from affective narratology, which conforms to the readers expectation, this paper explores how Celeste Ng
applies unique narrative techniques to shatter readers expectations and set the blank in the novel, and why these can cause readers aesthetic
pleasure. Meanwhile, it also endows the novel with unique aesthetic intensity.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/rcha.v2i4.4281
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