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Linguistics and Literature Studies Vol. 11(4), pp. 74 - 80
DOI: 10.13189/lls.2023.110403
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The Carriage Space and the Sensory Experience in Amsterdam and Solar
Zhong Ying 1,*, Song Yanfang 2
1 Foreign Languages Studies School, Changzhou Institute of Technology (CIT), China
2 School of Foreign Languages, Soochow University, China
ABSTRACT
The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between the carriage space and the human senses through McEwan's all-around representation of the carriage space in Amsterdam and Solar. The focus of this study is on how McEwan represents carriage space in Amsterdam and Solar from three perspectives: the protagonists' panoramic view, their mechanization of perception, and their deviant and compensatory behavior in the carriage space. Their gaze inside the train and the plane is panoramic visual perception, which lets them feel the creativity of the railway and experience the synthesis philosophy. Although the panoramic view facilitates the grasp of the whole scenery, this perspective is centered on the visual level, and the sensory separation from other senses is inevitable. From a social perspective, the landscape they have seen is homogeneous with the single function. To balance their sensory experience, their respective tactile and taste compensation behaviors compensate for the visual monotony in the carriage space. The study indicates that in the carriage space, the individuals are curled into the mobile carriage space system unconsciously: they are restricted to behavior and mostly the visual sense prevails. Thus, it can be concluded that the visual-based two-dimensional field of view based on the sensory separation in the carriage space is in fact a mechanized perception at the price of destroying local characteristics and historical continuity. It is recommended that the dull experience of speed and disillusionment in enclosed spaces could be alleviated by the sensory compensation or empathy, but after all, the fundamental approach is to reconstruct the atmosphere of the space, enhance the connotation of the landscape, and highlight the regional characteristics of the landscape. The study aims to enrich McEwan's research and provide a new perspective.
KEYWORDS
Ian McEwan, Amsterdam, Solar, the Carriage Space, Sensory Experience
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[1] Zhong Ying , Song Yanfang , "The Carriage Space and the Sensory Experience in Amsterdam and Solar," Linguistics and Literature Studies, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 74 - 80, 2023. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2023.110403.
(b). APA Format:
Zhong Ying , Song Yanfang (2023). The Carriage Space and the Sensory Experience in Amsterdam and Solar. Linguistics and Literature Studies, 11(4), 74 - 80. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2023.110403.