Metafictional Treatment of Family Dysfunction, Guilt and Forgiveness in Atonement

dc.contributor.authorYadav, Birendra Kumar
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-11T06:05:35Z
dc.date.available2022-12-11T06:05:35Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractMetafiction is a literary device used when the author of a work of fiction wants to call attention to the fact that what has been written has been fabricated. In McEwan's Atonement, metafiction is used when the author gives the impression that one of his fictional characters is the actual author of this piece of fiction. Through this device, McEwan questions the relationship between fiction and reality. McEwan wants the reader to be aware of how unreliable the fictional world is. When McEwan has Briony take over authorship of the novel and then also creates a scene in which she discusses various endings that she might have used, he emphasizes how uncertain language can be in representing the world. In other words, McEwan, through metafiction, demonstrates how easily words can change the world that is being described.  en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/13560
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.subjectMetafictional treatmenten_US
dc.subjectFamily dysfunctionen_US
dc.titleMetafictional Treatment of Family Dysfunction, Guilt and Forgiveness in Atonementen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Englishen_US

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