Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, 2nd edition

Author:   Dr Sebastian Groes (University of Roehampton, London)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Edition:   2nd edition
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9781441139221


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   18 July 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   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:  

9781441139221


ISBN 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
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Table of 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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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"


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


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Sebastian Groes is Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK.

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