The Experimental Techniques in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Jie Han^*, Pei Wang

Foreign Language Department, Baoding University, Baoding, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jss.2015.36024                

Abstract

Ian McEwan, together with Martin Amis, is now the best-known and controversial contemporary British novelist. Atonement is regarded as the best of McEwan books and is shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It displays features of modernism and postmodernism, with the application of stream of consciousness, multiple voices, montage and flashbacks, becoming increasingly experimental in form.

Keywords

Ian Mcewan, Experimental Techniques, Atonement, Montage, Narrative

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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