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Registering Trauma and the Construction of Narrative in Ian McEwan’s The Innocent

Ian TanEnglish Language and Literature Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, SingaporeCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 599-607 | Published online: 20 Apr 2022

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