Imagination in Ian McEwan's Fiction

Cécile Leupolt currently works as a French and English teacher at a German grammar school. She previously taught English literature and language classes at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her main research interests are contemporary Anglophone literature, cognitive sciences, evolutionary psychology and discourse analysis.

• Reality, fiction, imagination – British contemporary fiction – Ian McEwan – Cognitive science – Mindreading/theory of mind – Trauma fiction/contingency – Pathological forms of imagination – Self-deception and daydreaming – Scope and limits of imaginative freedom – Fictional (non-)confessions – Imagination and storytelling – Intellectual manipulation – Achieving atonement – Doubled rhetorical acts – Confessant and confessor – Unreliable narration – Ethical dimension of fiction – Speech acts