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Temporal and Narrative Features of Ian McEwan and Joe Wright's Atonement

The paper deals with temporal and narrative properties of Ian McEwan's and Joe Wright's Atonement. In order to show continuity with his other works, four of McEwan's novels – The Innocent, Amsterdam, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach, have been analysed before elaborating the novel and film adaptation of Atonement. Apart from the narratological analysis, McEwan's layered works lend themselves to different kinds of readings, and the authors have used the theoretical notions of Immanuel Kant as well as concepts derived from the postmodern philosophical movement. The aim of the paper is to show how the chronotopical and intertextual nature of the literary original finds a worthy equivalent in the film version, proving the feasibility of a successful intermedial transfer of a complex narrative structure.

chronotope; narrative; intertextuality; fiction

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