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| Type: | Thesis |
| Title: | The interplay of trauma and the sublime in four fictions by Ian McEwan. |
| Author: | Havis, Steven Thomas James |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| School/Discipline: | School of Humanities |
| Abstract: | In this thesis, I will examine how McEwan represents trauma and the sublime in a selection of four novels; these are, in order of publication, The Child in Time (1987), Enduring Love (1997), Amsterdam (1998) and Saturday (2005). The novels I have selected evoke traumatic experience and various versions of the sublime, particularly the eighteenth-century ideas of the sublime described by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. These evocations of trauma and the sublime often coincide in the novels. |
| Advisor: | Kerr, Heather Beviss Nettelbeck, Amanda E. |
| Dissertation Note: | Thesis (M.Phil.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2015 |
| Keywords: | trauma; sublime; narrative point of view; narratology; free indirect discourse |
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