Catherine Delesalle-Nancey
Biographic Data
| ID | 9237336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Delesalle-Nancey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Delesalle-Nancey |
| SIGNATURE | DELESALLE-NANCEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Jean Moulin Lyon III |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Atoning for Nostalgia in Ian McEwan’s Atonement
Many critics have pointed out the ambiguities of Atonement, a postmodernist anti-nostalgic novel that brings to the fore all the traditional topoi of Englishness in order better to denounce them as sham. In Atonement, the nostalgic longing is linked to the desire of Briony (the protagonist/narrator) for a return to a state of innocence which, I will argue through a close analysis of the text and its recurring images, is as much an atoning for her…
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Atoning for Nostalgia in Ian McEwan’s Atonement
Many critics have pointed out the ambiguities of Atonement, a postmodernist anti-nostalgic novel that brings to the fore all the traditional topoi of Englishness in order better to denounce them as sham. In Atonement, the nostalgic longing is linked to the desire of Briony (the protagonist/narrator) for a return to a state of innocence which, I will argue through a close analysis of the text and its recurring images, is as much an atoning for her…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Atonement (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Fantasy (1 work) · Innocence (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (1 work) · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior (1 work) · Omnipotence (1 work)