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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Ian McEwan"”.
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The interplay of trauma and the sublime in four fictions by Ian McEwan.
In this thesis, I will examine how McEwan represents trauma and the sublime in a selection of four novels; these are, in order of publication, The Child in Time (1987), Enduring Love (1997), Amsterdam (1998) and Saturday (2005). The novels I have selected evoke traumatic experience and various …
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Narrative Topography: Fictions of Country, City, and Suburb in the Work of Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan
… era of mechanical and genetic reproduction, reliance on perspectives formed in past and imagined futures can be quite deadly. The fourth chapter analyzes Ian McEwan's post 9/11 novel, Saturday--a reworking of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. In reading these two novels side-by-side, it reveals how London, …
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Embrutar-se les mans : una aproximació al pensament de la novel·la d'Ian McEwan
… al pensament de la novel·la de l'autor britànic Ian McEwan, fent especial èmfasi en els trets postmoderns de la seva producció enmarcats dins la nova ficció britànica.
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Every time you close your eyes.
… time. The accompanying exegesis examines the way Ian McEwan and Haruki Murakami use triggers to reveal the state of the world in which their characters live. It contains interviews with two New Yorkers who experienced both power cuts and includes discussions of major activators such as disasters …
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"Everything Beautiful is Far Away": (Collected Short Stories): Embedded Autobiography, Estrangement and the (Re)discovery of Self in Contemporary Short Fiction
… Sukenick and elements of psychoanalysis, (Freudian, Lacanian) whilst also considering the writings of Raymond Carver, Ian McEwan and Jean-Paul Sartre. The third and final chapter raises further questions about the concept of the Self in short fiction with specific reference to my own creative …
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Freedom and the city: contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement
… Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, J.G. Ballard, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Maggie Gee—I uncover the process by which British writers working after Thatcher came to believe that one of the consequences of this experiment with freedom has been a disastrous abandonment of politics in its formal …
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LIBERTY HORSES (A NOVEL): NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS IN POSTMODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TEXTS
… History and Myth, as employed by such writers as Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, Peter Ackroyd, Angela Carter and Christine Brooke-Rose. The chapter also discusses the part played by the Booker Prize in the rise in commercial popularity of these writers as well as the acceptance of postmodern writing …
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TWILIGHT OF THE TOFFS: FALL OF A CASTE, RISE OF A MYTH
… novel. I have chosen three novels for my study: Ian McEwan‟s Atonement (2001), Kazuo Ishiguro‟s The Remains of the Day (1989) and Evelyn Waugh‟s Brideshead Revisited (1945). My main critical perspective is a structuralist one, namely that of Roland Barthes in his Mythologies (1956). I show how, …
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The centre cannot hold: a translation of the cognitive nonconscious
… Manazir Siddiqi, Sarah Rose Etter, Tom McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Ben Lerner, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith, Edward St. Aubyn, Patricia Lockwood, Christine Smallwood, Richard Owain Roberts, and Jon McGregor. What connects the work of these authors is the rejection of consciousness as a privileged …
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Crafting citizens: material rhetoric, cultural intermediaries, and the Amazwi Abesifazane South African national quilt project
… as Atonement,” reads the film adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel, Atonement, against critical moments during my research trips to question the “empowerment” drive of contemporary scholarship. My conclusion works to consider the broader significance of craft rhetoric projects as I outline critical …
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Aging well: Shaping age identities in the literature of the British welfare state
This dissertation traces a literary genealogy of old age and argues that British literature offers both a systematic challenge to the regulatory models of the life course solidified during the twentieth century and emerging from the welfare state, as well as a necessary caveat concerning recent …