Confabulation of things past in Ian McEwan’s black dogs

Confabulation is a result of memory impairment and a confabulator in many different ways produces various unreliable narratives: either by weaving a detailed narrative to fill in the gaps in his memory or by falsifying his memory due to the absence of deceitfulness occurring in clear consciousness....

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Main Author:	Seyed Javad Habibi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7069/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7069/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7069/1/4388-14276-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-70692016-12-14T06:43:01Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7069/ Confabulation of things past in Ian McEwan’s black dogs Seyed Javad Habibi, Confabulation is a result of memory impairment and a confabulator in many different ways produces various unreliable narratives: either by weaving a detailed narrative to fill in the gaps in his memory or by falsifying his memory due to the absence of deceitfulness occurring in clear consciousness. Concentrating on the unreliability of memory-oriented narrative, particularly, in the narratives with historiographical framework such as Ian McEwan’s novel Black Dogs (1992), this article underlines various types of discrepancies among the major characters’ narratives and lays bare how the memory-based narrative of the novel is crystallized from “the reconstructive theory of memory.” Indeed, the object of this study is to substantiate that those inconstancies and contradictions throw doubt on the central incident of the novel, which puts forward the assumption that the entire narrative of the novel is a confabulative. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7069/1/4388-14276-1-PB.pdf Seyed Javad Habibi, (2014) Confabulation of things past in Ian McEwan’s black dogs. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 20 (1). pp. 101-114. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/index
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description	Confabulation is a result of memory impairment and a confabulator in many different ways produces various unreliable narratives: either by weaving a detailed narrative to fill in the gaps in his memory or by falsifying his memory due to the absence of deceitfulness occurring in clear consciousness. Concentrating on the unreliability of memory-oriented narrative, particularly, in the narratives with historiographical framework such as Ian McEwan’s novel Black Dogs (1992), this article underlines various types of discrepancies among the major characters’ narratives and lays bare how the memory-based narrative of the novel is crystallized from “the reconstructive theory of memory.” Indeed, the object of this study is to substantiate that those inconstancies and contradictions throw doubt on the central incident of the novel, which puts forward the assumption that the entire narrative of the novel is a confabulative.
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title	Confabulation of things past in Ian McEwan’s black dogs
title_short	Confabulation of things past in Ian McEwan’s black dogs
title_full	Confabulation of things past in Ian McEwan’s black dogs
title_fullStr	Confabulation of things past in Ian McEwan’s black dogs
title_full_unstemmed	Confabulation of things past in Ian McEwan’s black dogs
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publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2014
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7069/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7069/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7069/1/4388-14276-1-PB.pdf
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Confabulation of things past in Ian McEwan’s black dogs

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