Introduction: Ian McEwan’s Sensationalist Impressionism

I like writers generally, and Nabokov is another who is supreme in this respect, who recognizes that forty percent of the brain’s processing is given over to the visual, and the visual region projects deep into other parts of the brain, of language and emotion. We are visual creatures and the novel...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/polysemes,
Auteurs principaux: Cassigneul, Adèle, Cavalié, Elsa
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: Polysèmes 2022
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:I like writers generally, and Nabokov is another who is supreme in this respect, who recognizes that forty percent of the brain’s processing is given over to the visual, and the visual region projects deep into other parts of the brain, of language and emotion. We are visual creatures and the novel, more than cinema, for me is ultimately a visual medium.David Lynn, “A Conversation with Ian McEwan”, 45.Crafting his novels for “visual creatures”, Ian McEwan time and again creates impactful, or...