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1、Unit12Butterflies----IanMcEwanOutlineAbouttheauthorWarm-upquestionsTextualanalysisCriticalresponseandimpactAbouttheauthor---IanMcEwan(1948-)BriefintroductionAnEnglishnovelistandscreenwriterBornin Aldershot,Hampshire,spentmuchofhischildhoodinEastAsia,GermanyandNo
2、rthAfrica(including Libya),wherehisfatherwasposted,andreturnedtoEnglandwithhisfamilywhenhewastwelve.Educatedat WoolverstoneHallSchool;the UniversityofSussex,receivinghisdegreeinEnglishliteraturein1970;andthe UniversityofEastAnglia,whereheundertookamaster'sdegree
3、increativewriting.AwardsandhonorsFirstLove,LastRites(1975):SomersetMaughamAward(毛姆奖)TheChildinTime(1987):WhitbreadNovelAward(布莱德奖)Amsterdam(1998):ManBookerPrize(布克奖)Atonement(2001):adaptedintoan Oscar-winning filmstarring KeiraKnightley and JamesMcAvoy.Awardedth
4、e JerusalemPrize(耶路撒冷文学奖)fortheFreedomoftheIndividualinSocietyin2011WritingfeaturesAmongallofMcEwan’sliteraryworks,shortstoriescoveredalargepart,mostofwhichwereequippedwithvariousintricateandquaintplot,withfulladditionofgothicelements.Manyofhisworkswereknownas“b
5、lackcomedy”,andhehimselfalsowonthenicknameof“IanMacabre”.Thetopicofhisworksweremainlyconcernedwithethicaltaboosandthedarksideofhumanity,suchassexualviolence,incest,murder,etc.McEwanwasverygoodatdepictingtheinternalsenseofuneaseandconcernswithinmodernpeople’shear
6、t,vividlyreflectingwhatinsidehumannature.Therewasawiderangeoftopicsconcerninghisliterarycreation,especiallythecontrolofsexualdesireonhumannature,andthoseconcerningviolenceanddeath.Besides,hisliteraryworkshasbeentypicalexamplesofachievingthefunctionofreflectingso
7、cialreality.ImportantWorksNovelsTheCementGarden(1978)TheComfortofStrangers(1981)TheChildinTime(1987)TheInnocent(1990)BlackDogs(1992)EnduringLove(1997)Amsterdam(1998)Atonement(2001)Saturday(2005)OnChesilBeach(2007)Solar(2010)SweetTooth(2012)TheChildrenAct(2014)Sh
8、ortstorycollectionsFirstLove,LastRites(1975)InBetweentheSheets(1978)ScreenplaysTheImitationGame:ThreePlaysforTelevision(1981)ThePloughman'sLunch(1985)SourSweet(1988)W
