LEADER 04782nam 22006971c 450 001 9910459091103321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-4247-9 010 $a1-282-87087-4 010 $a9786612870873 010 $a1-4411-0274-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472542472 035 $a(CKB)2670000000056556 035 $a(EBL)601756 035 $a(OCoLC)676697528 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000420166 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12173674 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000420166 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10392480 035 $a(PQKB)10009174 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000437952 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12210449 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000437952 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10448572 035 $a(PQKB)11245316 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC601756 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL601756 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10427266 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL287087 035 $a(OCoLC)893335172 035 $a(OCoLC)781369580 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257055 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000056556 100 $a20140929d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aIan McEwan $econtemporary critical perspectives $fedited by Sebastian Groes 210 1$aLondon $aNew York, NY $cContinuum $d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (172 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary critical perspectives 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8264-9721-7 311 $a0-8264-9722-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [143]-150) and index 327 $aSeries 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 (Liverpool Hope University, UK) -- Chronology -- 1. Surreal Encounters in McEwan's Early Work, Jeanette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) -- 2. 'Profoundly Dislocating and Infinite in Possibility': Ian McEwan's Screenwriting, M. Hunter Hayes (Texas A&M University, USA) & Sebastian Groes (Liverpool Hope University) -- 3. The Innocent as anti-Oedipal Critique of Cultural Pornography, Claire Colebrook (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- 4. War of the Words: Atonement and the Question of Plagiarism, Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University, UK) -- 5. Postmodernism and the Ethics of Fiction in Atonement, Alistair Cormack -- 6. Ian McEwan and Modernist Time: Atonement and Saturday, Laura Marcus (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- 7. Ian McEwan and the Modernist Consciousness of the City in Saturday, Sebastian Groes (Liverpool Hope University) -- 8. On Chesil Beach: another 'overrated' novella? Dominic Head (University of Nottingham) -- Journeys without Maps: An Interview with Ian McEwan by Jon Cook (UEA, UK), Sebastian Groes (Liverpool Hope University, UK) and Victor Sage (UEA, UK) -- Further Reading -- Index 330 $a"Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working in the contemporary period. Although primarily a novelist, he has also written short stories, television plays, a libretto, a children's book and a film adaptation. This guide brings together a collection of fresh perspectives on McEwan's oeuvre, not only covering the early works and his writing for the screen but also incorporating detailed and original analyses of the later work, including his most recent novella, On Chesil Beach. It also includes a preface by Matt Ridley, the controversial writer on genetics and human behavior, about McEwan's obsession with science, as well as a unique discussion with McEwan himself."--Bloomsbury Publishing 330 8 $aIan McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working in the contemporary period. Although primarily a novelist, he has also written short stories, television plays, a libretto, a children's book and a film adaptation. This guide brings together a collection of fresh perspectives on McEwan's oeuvre, not only covering the early works and his writing for the screen but also incorporating detailed and original analyses of the later work, including his most recent novella, On Chesil Beach. It also includes a preface by Matt Ridley, the controversial writer on genetics and human behavior, about McEwan's obsession with science, as well as a unique discussion with McEwan himself 410 0$aContinuum contemporary critical perspectives series. 606 $2Literary studies: from c 1900 - 676 $a823.914 702 $aGroes$b Sebastian 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459091103321 996 $aIan McEwan$9245997 997 $aUNINA