This study focuses on Ian McEwan's Nutshell (2016), a novel frequently viewed as an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601), and explores the relationship between the birth of the foetus-narrator from McEwan's fiction, the anthropogenesis (understood by Agamben as the "becom...
"Ian McEwan’s Nutshell: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus." Washington Post, 12 September 2016. ["[A] story that’s surprisingly suspenseful, dazzlingly clever and gravely profound."]Johnson, Carla K. "Nutshell Is Hamlet in Miniature." Washington Post, 12 September 2016....
His emphasis on the ethics of reading and teaching of literature provides a productive...doi:10.1080/00111619.2017.1378612Biwu ShangCritique Studies in Contemporary Fiction
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Ian McEwan succeeds at this reevaluation in his novel Nutshell (2016), where he adapts Shakespeare's Hamlet into a contemporary setting. Prince Hamlet, in this case, is turned into an unborn anti-hero, acting from inside his mother's womb. The female characters ar...
It takes a lion's nerve to rewrite "Hamlet" from the viewpoint ofa fetus, a stunt conceived and...Johnson, Carla K
This essay will examine two of Ian McEwan's recent novellas as political rewritings of William Shakespeare and Franz Kafka. McEwan'sNutshell(2016) repositions the avenger figure inHamletas an unborn child whose melancholic awareness of the condition of modern existence allows him a mode of ironic...
Ian McEwan's novels are drawn to enclosed spaces. There is the squash court upon which the...Swift, Daniel
as a reference text, the use of quotations and allusions and the representation of bodily processes and the relation between the I-narrator and the author. The ethical substance of the work is shown to be generated by its specific narrative form....
Ian McEwan鈥檚 Nutshell: A Creative Misreading of HamletJinan CuiJunwu Tian