Essays about: "ian mcewan atonement"

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1. 1. Rape - A Love Story? Representations of Rape in Disgrace, Cereus Blooms at Night, Atonement, and Rape: A Love Story

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Shuna Blankenhaus; [2017]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the representation of rape in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), Shani Motoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1996), Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), and Joyce Carol Oates’ Rape: A Love Story (2003). READ MORE

3. 2. Commanding the Truth: A Narrative Reading of Ian McEwan's "Atonement"

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Emma Helander; [2013-06-27]
   Keywords : commanding the truth; truth and fiction; Briony; Atonement; Ian McEwan; narratology; Manfred Jahn; narrating I; focalization;

   Abstract : The tension between truth and fiction is central in Ian McEwan's "Atonement", since the main character, Briony, turns out to be both the narrating I and the experiencing I. The aim of this essay is to find out how it is possible for Briony to be both author ad character. READ MORE

4. 3. Real Life as a Play on Stage - A Study of Guilt and Shame in Ian McEwan's "Atonement"

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Ingegerd Stenport; [2013-06-25]
   Keywords : real life; play on stage; Atonement; Ian McEwan; guilt; shame;

   Abstract : In the novel "Atonement" by Ian McEwan, questions of guilt, shame and redemption are in focus. The main character Briony Tallis is presented as making up for a crime by working on a novel for 59 years. READ MORE

5. 4. 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

6. 5. 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