A short overview about the narrative perspectives in Lively’s "Moon Tiger" and its functions

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Veranstaltung: Concepts & Methodologies - Anglistik/Nordamerikanistik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Moon Tiger, a novel written by Penelope Lively in 1987, is about the time around and during World War II. A woman, who is close to hear dead, wants to write a history book which turns out to be her personal life with all the aspects of her changing love-life and different kind of troubles. First this paper will give you a short introduction on the theory of narrative perspectives. After that it will deal with the different narrative views in Lively’s Moon Tiger and their function for the main themes. The main work of this paper is from Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger.