Beyond Repair? Ruins and Rubble in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Études Britanniques Contemporaines

关键词: I.McEwan;    atonement;    demise;    end;    Great House;    irreversibility;   

DOI  :  10.4000/ebc.1332

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In his representation of England in the 1930s and of the Second World War, McEwan’s Atonement stages shattered worlds, both public and private, from derelict marriages and ruined relationships to the rubble of the Dunkirk retreat and the soldiers’ festering wounds. Starting with a discussion of the Tallises’ Victorian country house which, far from functioning as a marker of stability, signifies the demise of an era and of its myths, the paper will move to the ruined temple in the Tallis grounds and the picture of war devastation to investigate the unveiling function of ruin, before examining how McEwan’s awry ruins are partly redeemed by the reversibility of fiction.

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