Postmodern Strategies in Ian McEwan’s Major Novels

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Author(s) 

Jie Han^*, Zhenli Wang

Affiliation(s)

Foreign Language Department, Baoding University, Baoding, China.

ABSTRACT

Ian McEwan, together with Martin Amis is now the best-known and controversial contemporary British novelist. McEwan seems to be interested in the relationship between reality and imagina-tion, history and fabrication in the process of writing, which is generally considered as one of the themes related to postmodern metafiction writing. He also adopts the postmodern intertextuality in his writing practice. Those postmodern concerns and strategies confirm his position as a post-modernist.

KEYWORDS

Ian McEwan, Postmodern Strategies, Intertextuality, Atonement, Black Dogs

Cite this paper

Han, J. and Wang, Z. (2014) Postmodern Strategies in Ian McEwan’s Major Novels. Advances in Literary Study, 2, 134-139. doi: 10.4236/als.2014.24020. 

 

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