Essays about: "McEwan"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 essays containing the word McEwan.

  1. 6. Sustainability or climate change? An ecocritical analysis of Ian McEwan’s Solar :

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Anne Mette Hartvigsen; [2013]
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    Abstract : This essay is an ecocritical literary analysis of the novel Solar. The aim is to investigate the effect on the reader of the main characters, place, symbols and satire with focus on climate change and sustainability. READ MORE

  3. 7. Deprivation of Closure in McEwan's Atonement : Unreliability and Metafiction as Underlying Causes

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Rebecka Sjöberg; [2012]
    Keywords : McEwan; closure; unreliable narrator; metafiction;

    Abstract : The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to discuss, and attempt to confirm, that Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) lacks closure. Since the novel has an unreliable narrator who offers her readers several credible endings to her narrative, and who also acts as the fictitious author of the story, unreliability and metafiction are claimed to be the main underlying causes of this deprivation of closure. READ MORE

  4. 8. “Men Don’t Cry but Women Do” Grieving Fathers and Escaping Mothers in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist and Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Caroline Arvelin; [2011]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

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  5. 9. Fictional and Metafictional Strategies in Ian McEwan’s Novel Atonement (2001) and its Screen Adaptation (2007)

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Katrin Dahlbäck; [2009]
    Keywords : Ian McEwan; Atonement; Joe Wright; Reality; Fiction; Metafiction; Briony Tallis; Literature; Adaptation; Novel;

    Abstract : The concept of distorting the line between fiction and reality appears to be one of the main themes in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) as well as in Joe Wright’s screen adaptation of the novel, released in 2007. With the focus on the main character Briony Tallis this essay explores the influence that literature and fiction have on her, how they bring her to blur the line between them and reality and, to a lesser extent, the different ways in which the novel and its screen adaptation address this issue. READ MORE

  6. 10. The Complexity of Class - A Study of Ideology and the Power of Literature in Ian McEwan's Narrative

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Carolina Carlbom; [2009]
    Keywords : klassamhället i litteraturen; class in literature; Saturday; Ian McEwan; Atonement; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Ian McEwan's novels Atonement and Saturday open up for discussion of class. Present-day society gives people access to art and literature to a greater extent than before, which evens out the divisions of knowledge over class boundaries. READ MORE