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1. 1. 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

3. 2. Briony Through Her Own Eyes; a Discussion of the Three Brionys in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Cathrin Sernham; [2009]
   Keywords : characterisation; unreliable narrator; Briony; Ian McEwan; metafiction; Atonement; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : .... READ MORE