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Dufrene-Meur, Nadine. "L'univers imaginaire dans l'oeuvre d'Ian McEwan." Brest, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990BRES1001.
Full textMcEwan's characters are influenced by myth. The myths of patriarchy; religion; sexuality and its taboos; power as illustrated by the state, the police and the army, all play an important part in his novels and shorts stories. The idea couple, the ideal of beauty, politeness, money, the desire to make a name for oneself, travelling and the past with its ancestral laws are mythical values to be respected. Illness and death disturb. Most of the protagonists are children or teenagers whose freedom is curbed by the sun which symbolizes the father. Nearly all the characters suffer in a sultry, stifling atmosphere. Moreover, there is a total inadequacy between them and society. McEwan emphasizes all their phantasms and neuroses, the work of mourning as well as the notion of desorder and solitude. They feel exclused and create their own world of happiness by indulging in smoking, drinking, or through drugs, music, yoga etc. . . They suffer from the absence of love. This hankering ofter love pushes them to try to escape solitude but in the attempt they destroy innocence, beauty and all that is sacred. In the process, they trangress laws and taboos. Rape, incest, lesbian relationships, sadomasochism, the fear of procreation, the thirst for knowledge, the failure to become a father, jealousy, violence, murder, misogny and castration are all present to illustrate their frustrations and their need to be loved as well as the abuse of power and the misuse of authority. Mcewan's main stylistic devices are pathetic fallacy, suspence, and irony as well as the use of slang or metaphors. Thanks to his style, ambiguity, silence and obsession pervade the whole work. Some secret is always hidden behing the words and the characters who in turn seem to wear a permanent mask. In fact, the characters appear to be doomed for they cannot accept reality and its limits. They desperately try to transcend time and space. They live in an imaginary world which prevents them from communicating with the people arround them. As they do not accept themselves, nor love themselves, they cannot love nor be loved in return
Le, Barzic David. "La responsabilisation esthétique : phénomènes et mécanismes de réponse dans l'oeuvre d'Ian McEwan." Angers, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001ANGE0035.
Full textFortin-Tournès, Anne-Laure. "Les figures de la violence dans la littérature britannique contemporaine : Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030197.
Full textThe representation of violence in novels by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Graham Swift exemplifies two major trends in postmodern British writing. McEwan and Swift incorporate the horror of the Second World War into their texts by means of the representation of a semiotized body that makes violence present through its consequences for the subject and the linguistic sign. This iconic body sets discourse into motion, because it endows language with the power to point to the very presence of its object. Amis denounces this economy of representation as prone to the logic of the simulacrum, by staging its consequences in the guise of a carnivalesque revolution, and revealing that the postmodern novel is haunted by nothingness. Henceforth, since writing appears as a mere simulacrum, only reading seems to retain the shaping power of imagination on the emptied stage of contemporary fiction. But even the reader fails to save the text from the wreckage of the collusion between words and things, since he is himself riddled with the hollows of desire. He can only attempt to relish the violent play of language that takes place before his eyes
Arquié, Bruno. "De Darwin à la littérature : un regard évolutionniste sur des romans d'Ian McEwan et de Margaret Drabble." Nantes, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2016NANT3008.
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