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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Sebastian Groes (University of Roehampton, London)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA Edition: 2nd edition Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.290kg ISBN: 9781441139221ISBN 10: 1441139222 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 18 July 2013 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsSeries 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.ReviewsIan McEwan is Britain's most consistently interesting and rewarding novelist and in this collection of essays his work receives the criticism it deserves. The contributors are thorough and intelligent, whether focused on the early stories, recent work like Atonement and Saturday, or even McEwan's screenwriting, and combine impeccable scholarship with lucidity that will make these essays accessible to the wide audience they ought to find. The chronology, suggestions for further reading, and an interview with McEwan are bonuses. - Professor Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina, USA This milestone collection of essential reading addresses for the first time from multiple challenging and original perspectives the writing of Britain's foremost contemporary novelist. - Professor Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire, UK ... provides a valuable contribution to the growing corpus of literary criticism on Ian McEwan and Groes has done a good job in collecting together interesting and new readings of his fiction. -- in The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 90 """Ian McEwan is Britain's most consistently interesting and rewarding novelist and in this collection of essays his work receives the criticism it deserves. The contributors are thorough and intelligent, whether focused on the early stories, recent work like Atonement and Saturday, or even McEwan's screenwriting, and combine impeccable scholarship with lucidity that will make these essays accessible to the wide audience they ought to find. The chronology, suggestions for further reading, and an interview with McEwan are bonuses."" - Professor Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina, USA ""This milestone collection of essential reading addresses for the first time from multiple challenging and original perspectives the writing of Britain's foremost contemporary novelist."" - Professor Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire, UK ... provides a valuable contribution to the growing corpus of literary criticism on Ian McEwan and Groes has done a good job in collecting together interesting and new readings of his fiction. -- in The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 90" Ian McEwan is Britain's most consistently interesting and rewarding novelist and in this collection of essays his work receives the criticism it deserves. The contributors are thorough and intelligent, whether focused on the early stories, recent work like Atonement and Saturday, or even McEwan's screenwriting, and combine impeccable scholarship with lucidity that will make these essays accessible to the wide audience they ought to find. The chronology, suggestions for further reading, and an interview with McEwan are bonuses. - Professor Merritt Moseley, University of North Carolina, USA This milestone collection of essential reading addresses for the first time from multiple challenging and original perspectives the writing of Britain's foremost contemporary novelist. - Professor Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire, UK ... provides a valuable contribution to the growing corpus of literary criticism on Ian McEwan and Groes has done a good job in collecting together interesting and new readings of his fiction. -- In The Year's Work In English Studies, Volume 90 Author InformationSebastian Groes is Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |