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Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, 2nd edition 2nd edition


Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, 2nd edition 2nd edition

Paperback by Groes, Dr Sebastian (University of Roehampton, London)

Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, 2nd edition

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ISBN:
9781441139221
Publication Date:
18 Jul 2013
Edition/language:
2nd edition / English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Pages:
208 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 21 - 22 May 2024
Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, 2nd edition

Description

Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working today. His books are both critically - and academically - acclaimed and embraced by readers across the world. Although primarily a novelist, he has also written short stories, television plays, a libretto, a children's book and a film adaptation. Across these many forms his work retains a distinctive character that explores questions of morality, place and history, nationhood, sexuality and gender. Now fully updated for its second edition, this guide brings together a collection of new critical perspectives on McEwan's oeuvre, not only covering the early works and his writing for the screen but also incorporating detailed and original analyses of the later work, including new readings of his latest books, Solar and Sweet Tooth. With an updated and extended guide to further critical reading on McEwan, the book also includes an interview with the author himself, a chronology of his life, work and times and the full text of a lost early McEwan short story.

Contents

Series Editors' Preface \ Acknowledgements \ Preface: Ian McEwan and the Rational Mind, Matt Ridley \ Introduction: A Cartography of the Contemporary: Mapping Newness in the Work of Ian McEwan, Sebastian Groes \ Chronology \ 1. Surreal Encounters in McEwan's Early Work, Jeanette Baxter \ 2. 'Profoundly Dislocating and Infinite in Possibility': Ian McEwan's Screenwriting, M. Hunter Hayes and Sebastian Groes \ 3. The Innocent as Anti-Oedipal Critique of Cultural Pornography, Claire Colebrook \ 4. War of the Words: Atonement and the Question of Plagiarism, Natasha Alden \ 5. Postmodernism and the Ethics of Fiction in Atonement, Alistair Cormack \ 6. Ian McEwan and Modernist Time: Atonement and Saturday, Laura Marcus \ 7. Ian McEwan and the Modernist Consciousness of the City in Saturday, Sebastian Groes \ 8. On Chesil Beach: Another 'Overrated' Novella? Dominic Head \ 9. Solar: An Ecocritical Reading, Greg Garrard \ Journeys without Maps: An Interview with Ian McEwan, Jon Cook, Sebastian Groes and Victor Sage \ Further Reading \ Index.

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