![]() ![]() ![]() Further to this, neuropsychiatric research is applied to the novels, highlighting the potential for interdisciplinary overlap in the study of narrative focalisation. ![]() Most significantly, the concepts of 'suppositious text-possible worlds' and '(total) frame readjustment' are introduced. With reference to the stylistically deviant texts of McEwan, it is argued that revisions to current theoretical frameworks are warranted. Building upon Ryan's (1991) seminal conceptualisation of the theory in relation to literature and using the novels as case studies, possible worlds theory is used to explain the unique and destabilising stylistic effects at play in the texts, which result in a 'duplicitous point of view' and consequent disorientation for the reader. Framed by cognitive-poetic and possible worlds theories, this article explores two 21st century novels by the British postmodernist author Ian McEwan. ![]()
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