"disembodiment" - 1 õppematerjal

English literature summary

    Ian  McEwan  (1948)   –   a  celebrated  British  author,  reflect   many   of   the   major   movements   and  developments  that  have  occurred  in  English  literature  from  the  1970s  onward.     First   novel   The   Cement   Garden   (1978)   –   strange   sex,   death,   violence,   perversion   and   even  disembodiment,  children  –  not  innocent.     Humanistic  traits,  e.g.  The  Innocent  (1990),  Black  Days  (1992),  Atonement  (2001)  –  some   things  are  impossible  to  atone,  to  undo  and  to  forget.       For  him,  to  write  “conventionally”  means  to  be  a  rebel.  He  is  anti-­‐postmodern  and  anti-­‐ theory.