A Violent Need for Distance

In both Ian McEwan’s The Children Act and The Disappearance Boy by Neil Bartlett (2014), violence is first deciphered in the body contact which calls for a necessary distance between characters but also subplots, so that both protagonists and literary works might be autonomous. Such salutary distanc...

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Main Author: Laurent Mellet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2017-03-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4946
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