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Bitte beziehen Sie sich beim Zitieren dieses Dokumentes immer auf folgende URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59228 URL: http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/5922/ Eckstein, Lars
Saturday on Dover Beach : Ian McEwan, Matthew Arnold, and post-9/11 melancholia
Kurzfassung auf EnglischThis essay revisits Ian McEwan’s extremely successful novel Saturday, and interrogates its exemplary assessment of the British cultural climate after 9/11. The particular focus is on McEwan’s extensive recourse to the writings of Matthew Arnold, whose melancholy outlook on culture and anarchy McEwan basically translates into the 21st century without much ideological fraction. This relapse into Victorian liberal humanism as consolation for a Western world besieged by the contingencies of terrorism is extremely problematic. Not only does it wilfully ignore the transcultural realities of modern Britain, it also promotes an ahistorical and apolitical mode of critical inquiry which may be called reductive at best in view of the global challenges that the novel addresses.
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