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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814278703321

Autore

Head Dominic

Titolo

Ian McEwan [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-78170-102-4

1-84779-173-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Contemporary British Novelists

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series editor's foreword; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Shock-lit: the short stories and The Cement Garden; 3 Dreams of captivity: The Comfort of Strangers; 4 Towards the 'implicate order': The Child in Time; 5 Unravelling the binaries: The Innocentand Black Dogs; 6 'A mess of our own unmaking': Enduring Love; 7 Amsterdam: McEwan's 'spoiler'; 8 'The wild and inward journey of writing': Atonement; 9 'Accidents of character and circumstance': Saturday; 10 Conclusion: McEwan and the 'third culture'; Select bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P

RS; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the function and capacities of narrative fiction.McEwan's novels treat issues that are central to our times: politics, and the promotion of vested interests; male violence and the problem of gender relations; science and the limits of rationality; nature and ecology; love and innocence; and the quest for an ethical worldview. Yet he is also an econom