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 versions of the sublime, particularly the eighteenth-century ideas of the sublime described by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. These evocations of trauma and the sublime often coincide in the novels.

Author dc:creator

• Havis, Steven Thomas James

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Kerr, Heather Beviss
• Nettelbeck, Amanda E.

• trauma; sublime; narrative point of view; narratology; free indirect discourse

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/2440/97450

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.adelaide.edu.au:2440/97450