International audienceThis paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary to traditional practice, use their final pages to unsettle the conclusion reached earlier, and leave the reader in a state of uncertainty. Both A. S. Byatt’s Possession, a Romance (1990) and Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) play games with their readers when, rather than being part of a deflating and decelerating process of conclusion, the closing pages prolong and encourage rather than put an end to “retroactive reading” and “retrospective patterning”. Indeed, the last textual sections of each novel point to discrepancies or indeed constitute disjunctures themselves. In order to fully appreciate the means and effects of the dissonance establish...
[eng] This work explores the use and abuse of authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) and Sweet ...
This thesis is an analysis of the negotiation of reception and text within contemporary English lite...
Ian McEwan\u27s Atonement presents a meta-level relationship among author, reader, and characters. ...
International audienceThis paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary ...
This paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary to traditional practic...
International audienceA.S. Byatt's Possession (1990) and Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001) share an unus...
International audienceA.S. Byatt's Possession (1990) and Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001) share an unus...
Mainly focusing on postmodern literary theory, I will analyze Ian McEwan’s Atonement and suggest how...
This article examines the issue of the collection of short-stories in the works of Jean Rhys and Jan...
The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to discuss, and attempt to confirm, that Ian McEwan’s Atonement...
Unreliability and uncertainty are at the centre of Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and discussions of the no...
Bearing in mind A. S. Byatt’s stand regarding endings and narrative in 1990—‘I think closure is the ...
In “Resisting the Reader: Textual Recalcitrance in British Novels, 1917-2011,” I focus on a radical,...
This thesis explores how the novel Possession brings together the sensibilities of postmodernism and...
206 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980.A text will achieve closure i...
[eng] This work explores the use and abuse of authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) and Sweet ...
This thesis is an analysis of the negotiation of reception and text within contemporary English lite...
Ian McEwan\u27s Atonement presents a meta-level relationship among author, reader, and characters. ...
International audienceThis paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary ...
This paper proposes to look at two contemporary British novels that, contrary to traditional practic...
International audienceA.S. Byatt's Possession (1990) and Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001) share an unus...
International audienceA.S. Byatt's Possession (1990) and Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001) share an unus...
Mainly focusing on postmodern literary theory, I will analyze Ian McEwan’s Atonement and suggest how...
This article examines the issue of the collection of short-stories in the works of Jean Rhys and Jan...
The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to discuss, and attempt to confirm, that Ian McEwan’s Atonement...
Unreliability and uncertainty are at the centre of Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and discussions of the no...
Bearing in mind A. S. Byatt’s stand regarding endings and narrative in 1990—‘I think closure is the ...
In “Resisting the Reader: Textual Recalcitrance in British Novels, 1917-2011,” I focus on a radical,...
This thesis explores how the novel Possession brings together the sensibilities of postmodernism and...
206 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980.A text will achieve closure i...
[eng] This work explores the use and abuse of authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) and Sweet ...
This thesis is an analysis of the negotiation of reception and text within contemporary English lite...
Ian McEwan\u27s Atonement presents a meta-level relationship among author, reader, and characters. ...