03453nam 22008293u 450 991097281830332120240313074050.0978178170102717817010249781847791733184779173510.7765/9781847791733(CKB)2560000000085723(EBL)1069496(OCoLC)818847179(SSID)ssj0000747082(PQKBManifestationID)12342164(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000747082(PQKBWorkID)10699555(PQKB)10130586(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085723(MiAaPQ)EBC1069496(DE-B1597)660386(DE-B1597)9781847791733(Perlego)1526001(EXLCZ)99256000000008572320130418d2007|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrIan McEwan1st ed.Manchester Manchester University Press20071 online resource (232 p.)Contemporary British NovelistsDescription based upon print version of record.9781847795861 1847795862 9780719066566 0719066565 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; PRS; T; U; V; WIn 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 economContemporary British NovelistsEnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCEnglish LiteratureHILCCBritish novelists.Ian McEwan.bestseller lists.ethical worldview.gender relations.innocence.male violence.narrative fiction.rationality.vested interests.EnglishLanguages & LiteraturesEnglish Literature823.914Head Dominic282327AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910972818303321Ian McEwan245953UNINA