Ian McEwan Contemporary Critical Perspectives
by Groes, SebastianEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-07-19
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working in the contemporary period. His books are both critically - and academically - acclaimed and embraced by audiences 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.
Author Biography
Sebastian Groes is Lecturer in English at Liverpool Hope University, UK.
Table of Contents
| Foreword: Ian McEwan and the Rational Mind | p. vii |
| Series Editors' Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xii |
| Contributors | p. xiii |
| Chronology of Ian McEwan's Life | p. xv |
| Introduction A Cartography of the Contemporary: Mapping Newness in the Work of Ian McEwan | p. 1 |
| Surrealist Encounters in Ian McEwan's Early Work | p. 13 |
| `Profoundly dislocating and infinite in possibility': Ian McEwan's Screenwriting | p. 26 |
| The Innocent as Anti-Oedipal Critique of Cultural Pornography | p. 43 |
| Words of War, War of Words: Atonement and the Question of Plagiarism | p. 57 |
| Postmodernism and the Ethics of Fiction in Atonement | p. 70 |
| Ian McEwan's Modernist Time: Atonement and Saturday | p. 83 |
| Ian McEwan and the Modernist Consciousness of the City in Saturday | p. 99 |
| On Chesil Beach: Another `Overrated' Novella? | p. 115 |
| Journeys without Maps: An Interview with Ian McEwan | p. 123 |
| References | p. 135 |
| Further Reading | p. 143 |
| Index | p. 151 |
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