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Metafictionality, Intertextuality, Discursivity: Ian McEwan's Post-Millennial Novels
2016
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica
In his twenty-first-century novels, Atonement, Saturday, Solar and Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan makes ample use of narrative strategies characteristic of postmodernist writing, such as metafictionality, intertextuality and discursive multiplicity. This article discusses how this focus distinguishes his recent novels from earlier ones. Thus Sweet Tooth is read as a text which includes the author ' s attempt to revise his own shorter texts from the onset of his career in the mid-1970s. The use of
doi:10.14712/24646830.2016.32
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