Une analyse détaillée du roman Atonement de Ian McEwan datant de 2001 et de son adaptation filmique par Joe Wright de 2007, destinée aux étudiants préparant le concours d'agrégation d'anglais. L'ouvrage propose notamment une étude linguistique et esthétique. ©Electre 2025
Atonement
« The attempt was all »
This book provides a close reading of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement and its adaptation by Joe Wright, examining the relevance of various critical or theoretical movements such as narratology, adaptation theory and ethical criticism. It shows that the intertextuality and metafiction in McEwan's novel are adapted by Wright in a film which taps into the intermedial logic of metaadaptation. To study how both the novel and the film question the possibilities of their respective medium, this book analyses the ways Atonement disrupts the chronologies of creation and engages in an intricate game with focalisation and narration. The second part investigates the generic, linguistic and aesthetic distortions which aim at breaking and sexing the medium. Lastly, the book tackles the formal and ethical quandaries of Atonement and its « conversation with modernism », suggesting several philosophical and political interpretations of Briony's final confession that « the attempt was all » and of its aesthetic implications in the novel and on screen.
Paru le : 16/10/2017
Thématique : Essais et théories - Dictionnaire
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Laurent Mellet
Éditeur(s) :
Belin éducation
CNED
Collection(s) : Belin-CNED agrégation
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-410-01257-6
EAN13 : 9782410012576
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 180
Hauteur: 21.0 cm / Largeur 15.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.3 cm
Poids: 242 g
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