LEADER 03312nam 22007573u 450 001 9910791953503321 005 20230721012845.0 010 $a1-78170-102-4 010 $a1-84779-173-5 024 7 $a10.7765/9781847791733 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085723 035 $a(EBL)1069496 035 $a(OCoLC)818847179 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000747082 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12342164 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000747082 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10699555 035 $a(PQKB)10130586 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085723 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069496 035 $a(DE-B1597)660386 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847791733 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085723 100 $a20130418d2007|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIan McEwan$b[electronic resource] 210 $aManchester $cManchester University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary British Novelists 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84779-586-2 311 $a0-7190-6656-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aRS; T; U; V; W 330 $aIn this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the function and capacities of narrative fiction.McEwan's novels treat issues that are central to our times: politics, and the promotion of vested interests; male violence and the problem of gender relations; science and the limits of rationality; nature and ecology; love and innocence; and the quest for an ethical worldview. Yet he is also an econom 410 0$aContemporary British Novelists 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish Literature$2HILCC 610 $aBritish novelists. 610 $aIan McEwan. 610 $abestseller lists. 610 $aethical worldview. 610 $agender relations. 610 $ainnocence. 610 $amale violence. 610 $anarrative fiction. 610 $arationality. 610 $avested interests. 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aEnglish Literature 676 $a823.914 700 $aHead$b Dominic$0282327 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791953503321 996 $aIan McEwan$9245953 997 $aUNINA