“Up There with Black Holes and Darwin, Almost Bigger than Dinosaurs”: The Mind and McEwan's Enduring Love
Style September 1, 2011 Susan Green
Abstract Drawing upon recent ideas from the cognitive sciences, this paper is an interdisciplinary exploration of the representation of consciousness in McEwan's novel Enduring Love, focussing on overlapping manifestations of Theory of Mind ranging from altruism to violent pathology. Through techniques such as intertextuality, the use of paratexts, and the juxtaposition of scientific and...