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What Can We Know Reading List

On reading critically for Ian McEwan's What Can We Know...

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Oct 13, 2025
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I want to read critically after I read a book I liked. While there is no critical pieces out yet on Ian McEwan’s latest release What Can We Know I thought I’d read some pieces on his narrative style and metafiction to help unpick this narrative masterpiece some more.

Narrative Temporality and Slowed Scene: The Interaction of Event and Thought Representation in Ian McEwan’s Fiction

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