LEADER 03453nam 22008293u 450 001 9910972818303321 005 20240313074050.0 010 $a9781781701027 010 $a1781701024 010 $a9781847791733 010 $a1847791735 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(Perlego)1526001 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085723 100 $a20130418d2007|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIan McEwan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aManchester $cManchester University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary British Novelists 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781847795861 311 08$a1847795862 311 08$a9780719066566 311 08$a0719066565 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 $a9910972818303321 996 $aIan McEwan$9245953 997 $aUNINA