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Between Good and Evil: Deconstructive Interpretation of Noon Wine

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  • Ru Wang
  • Yunyun Tian

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) is an eminent novelist in the history of American literature, especially famous for her short novels. Noon Wine is her important masterpiece, its plot and motif always lead to reader’s deep meditation, and researches focus more on its narrative art, myth archetypes and themes. This paper tries to interpret Noon Wine from the perspective of deconstruction and selects several important characters to combine with the subversion of binary opposition in deconstruction, which aims to conclude that the relationship of good and evil in this story is consistent with Derrida’s definition for the relation of binary opposition---supplementation. Therefore, when people interpret things or person, it would be better to be more multiple, after all, between good and evil, there is not merely an arbitrary line but space for more possibilities.

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  • Ru Wang & Yunyun Tian, 2016. "Between Good and Evil: Deconstructive Interpretation of Noon Wine," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 9(11), pages 1-80, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:9:y:2016:i:11:p:80
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