War and Memory
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Lectures
, Plan of lectures
• Lecture 1
– McEwan’s life and career
– McEwan and war
Atonement
– Legacy of WWI and impending WWII
– War and business
– McEwan and Auden
– Realism and ‘the real’
,• Lecture 2
– Trauma as a missed encounter with the real
– Narrative technique and the evocation of
trauma
, Ian McEwan
• Born 1948, Aldershot,
Hampshire
• Father served in British
Expeditionary Force (BEF)
during WWII – injured
• Mother’s first husband killed in
war
• Father an Army Officer; spent
much of his childhood in the
Far East, Germany and North
Africa
• Attended the University of
Sussex and the University of
East Anglia – first graduate of
Creative Writing MA
• First Love, Last Rites (1975);
The Cement Garden (1978)
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Lectures
, Plan of lectures
• Lecture 1
– McEwan’s life and career
– McEwan and war
Atonement
– Legacy of WWI and impending WWII
– War and business
– McEwan and Auden
– Realism and ‘the real’
,• Lecture 2
– Trauma as a missed encounter with the real
– Narrative technique and the evocation of
trauma
, Ian McEwan
• Born 1948, Aldershot,
Hampshire
• Father served in British
Expeditionary Force (BEF)
during WWII – injured
• Mother’s first husband killed in
war
• Father an Army Officer; spent
much of his childhood in the
Far East, Germany and North
Africa
• Attended the University of
Sussex and the University of
East Anglia – first graduate of
Creative Writing MA
• First Love, Last Rites (1975);
The Cement Garden (1978)
