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Atonement as a postmodern novel

How do we make sense of the controversial ending of Ian McEwan’s Atonement? Karen Lockney shows how McEwan draws on a literary tradition of postmodernism to surprise and challenge his readers

Keira Knightley as Cecilia (left) and Saoirse Ronan as Briony (right) in Atonement (2007)
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AQA (A) Literature: ‘Struggle for identity in modern literature’; ‘Love through the ages’

Ian McEwan: AQA (A) Language and literature; AQA (B) Literature; AQA (B) Language and literature; OCR Language and literature

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