A diachronic approach to Ian McEwan’s fiction: from sensationalism to ethical writing (2018 - ERIBIA)

This paper employs Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of polyphonic novelistic discourse and Werner Wolf’s intermedial conceptualization of metareference in an analysis of the translation of metafictional and

This paper proposes an analysis of Joe Wright’s 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement. In particular it will look at how one of the novel’s major theme of storytelling and what Alistair

In this paper, we offer to examine the ghosts that pervade McEwan's Atonement, both as motifs of an age-old literary tradition that have survived throughout centuries and as symptoms of a modern

In Atonement (2001), McEwan works on the interplay of memory and imagination, historiography and fiction. The novel is haunted by a traumatic past, at both individual and collective levels, and

This article will analyse how McEwan’s exploration of trauma rests on its resolution and on the coping mechanisms employed by these two characters. It will also discuss how 'authorship' transcends