2004
DOI: 10.1353/jml.2004.0073
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Briony's Stand Against Oblivion: The Making of Fiction in Ian McEwan's Atonement

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“…The unexpected twist at the end of the third section pulls the rug from under the realistic reading of the novel and destabilizes the coherent picture constructed by the readers. It is true that metafictional elements permeate the novel as of its first pages (Finney, 2004). Nonetheless, the concluding section turns the novel into "a self-conscious, self-reflexive novel employing a character narrator who is herself a novelist" (Phelan 2007, 109), which produces an unsettling shock for most readers.…”
Section: Giving Access To the Ethical: Ian Mcewan's Atonementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The unexpected twist at the end of the third section pulls the rug from under the realistic reading of the novel and destabilizes the coherent picture constructed by the readers. It is true that metafictional elements permeate the novel as of its first pages (Finney, 2004). Nonetheless, the concluding section turns the novel into "a self-conscious, self-reflexive novel employing a character narrator who is herself a novelist" (Phelan 2007, 109), which produces an unsettling shock for most readers.…”
Section: Giving Access To the Ethical: Ian Mcewan's Atonementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The bigger frame that McEwan applies to this novel is only revealed dexterously towards its end, when Briony's identity as the novel's narrator, who has become a successful novelist and writes this story in old age as an act of atonement, is disclosed. Given its strong meta-fictional dimension (see Finney 2004 andD'Angelo 2009), Atonement is also a novel that engages with melodrama's potential to shape the way humans think about the real world, for the better or the worse. In a novel such as Atonement, melodrama has become the ruling force of the human mindset (see Straub 2014: 238-240).…”
Section: Meta-melodramamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The work of the modern British writer Ian McEwan attracts the attention of many literary critics 2013;Kushnirova, 2017;Maikovska, Malyshevska, 2020;Shuba, 2009, Finney, 2004, Miller, 2016. Ian McEwan is the winner of several literary awards, the author of fifteen novels, many short stories, oratorios and screenplays.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%