Ian McEwan Contemporary Critical Perspectives

by Groes, Sebastian

• ISBN13: 9780826497222
• ISBN10: 0826497225
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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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