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From Child in Time to Atonement: The importance of crisis in Ian McEwan's works
KRHUTOVÁ, Karolína
The diploma thesis "From Child In Time to Atonement: The importance of crisis in Ian McEwan's works" aims to identify and subsequently analyse the issue of crisis in the selected works of Ian McEwan. The thesis focuses on six novels: The Child In Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, Enduring Love, Amsterdam and Atonement. In the theoretical part, Ian McEwan is introduced in the context of British literature. Since Ian McEwan's work is on occasion influenced by postmodern thinking, the concept of postmodernism is characterized in brief. As Ian McEwan's later fiction is influenced immensely by his literary beginnings, his early fiction is introduced in order to provide a holistic view, a more complete picture. The following practical part examines the concept of crisis in Ian McEwan's work, using the author's selected works as references.
The role of irrationality in selected Ian McEwan's early works
KRHUTOVÁ, Karolína
The bachelor thesis "The role of irrationality in selected Ian McEwan's early works" aims to identify and analyze subsequently the above issue in the early works of Ian McEwan. The thesis focuses on two short story collections, that is First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets (1978), and on the 1978's novel The Cement Garden. In the theoretical part, postmodern literature is characterized in brief, with a focus on the question whether it is possible to label McEwan's work as "postmodern". The following practical part examines the theme of irrationality and analyzes the individual topics, using the author's selected works as references.

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