Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2020)

What’s the Destination of Atonement: A Literary Darwinian Interpretation of Briony

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Xinya Lu
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Xinya Lu
Available Online 9 July 2020.
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10.2991/assehr.k.200709.018How to use a DOI?
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Literary Darwinism, Atonement, Ian McEwan, configuration
Abstract

Literary Darwinism, a new trend of literary criticism emerged in the late twentieth century, advocates the objective pursuit of true knowledge about literary works to identify the specific configuration of meaning in any text. Atonement by Ian McEwan is a realistic metafiction, which aims to explore the truth of fiction and encourage people to atone for their crimes. This paper incorporates Literary Darwinism and unfolds the mind pattern of the protagonist Briony and the interaction among the characters, the audience and the author.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2020)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
9 July 2020
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978-94-6252-982-3
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200709.018How to use a DOI?
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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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