International Journal of Literacy and Education
2024, Vol. 4, Issue 2, Part B
The evolution of the British novel: From modernism to postmodernism in the works of D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Ian McEwan's Atonement
Author(s): Muhannad Hassan Jasim
Abstract: This study investigates the advancement of the English novel by examining the change from innovation to postmodernism, zeroing in on two fundamental works: D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Ian McEwan's Atonement. The essential point is to analyze how these books mirror their separate scholarly developments and the more extensive social moves that characterize them. The targets incorporate distinguishing the key pioneer highlights in Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, like its mental profundity and story style, and standing out from the postmodern procedures utilized by McEwan in Atonement including metafiction, discontinuity, and authentic revisionism. The strategy includes a near scholarly investigation, using close perusing procedures to analyze the topical, underlying, and expressive components of the two books. The concentration additionally attracts optional sources to contextualize the works inside their authentic and social structures. The outcomes demonstrate that while Sons and Lovers encapsulates the reflective and exploratory characteristics of innovation, Atonement exhibits postmodernism's propensity to obscure the limits of fiction and reality, featuring the abstract idea of truth and memory. The conversation explains how these books not just mirror the attributes of their separate developments but also study the social and social conditions in which they were composed. All in all, the review highlights the unique idea of the English novel, showing how artistic structures advance because of changing social and scholarly environments. The change from innovation to postmodernism, as found underway by Lawrence and McEwan, marks a huge change in story style and topical concentration, mirroring the more extensive development of twentieth and 21st-century writing.
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Muhannad Hassan Jasim. The evolution of the British novel: From modernism to postmodernism in the works of D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers and Ian McEwan's Atonement. Int J Literacy Educ 2024;4(2):82-87.