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Julian Barnes and the New Historicism Theories: On the Man Booker Prize Winning Novel The Sense of an Ending |
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Abstract Abstract: Contemporary English novelist Julian Barnes engages with the themes like history and truth in most of his novels. This paper aims to explore the intertextual relation between Barns’s novels and the New Historicism theories from the perspective of “Textuality of History” and the knowability of truth. Both Barns and the New Historicism theorists criticize the old historicism for viewing history as the objective facts. However, Barns’s paradoxical concept of “truth” differs from that of the New Historicism. This paper introduces Barns’s Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending as well as analyzes Barns’s concern of one’s self-identity in personal history.
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2015, Vol. 0 
