Frontiers in Literature Research, 2023, 4(1); doi: 10.38007/FILR.2023.040101.
Qiao Yuan
High School Attached to Northeast Normal University, Changchun China
The four parts of Oates's novel Four Summers are stories, which correspond to Sissie's four key stages from infancy, childhood, adolescence, to youth respectively, and describe Sissie's growing experience. This paper attempts to explore how the novel superbly displays the cognitive process of girls at the bottom and the narrative skills of their spiritual predicament from the sensitive, lonely and fearful sensory feelings of Sissie, the heroine in the text.
Growth Cognition, Emotional Narration, Class Solidification
Qiao Yuan. Sensory Narration in Oates's Four Summers. Frontiers in Literature Research (2023), Vol. 4, Issue 1: 1-7. https://doi.org/10.38007/FILR.2023.040101.
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