
Ian Mcewan
Dominic Head(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 30. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-7190-6657-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 economical stylist: McEwan's readers are called upon to attend, not just to the grand themes, but also to the precision of his spare writing.
Although McEwan's later works are more overtly political, more humane, and more ostentatiously literary than the early work, Dominic Head uncovers the continuity as well as the sense of evolution through the oeuvre. Head makes the case for McEwan's prominence - pre-eminence, even - in the canon of contemporary British novelists. -- .
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 economical stylist: McEwan's readers are called upon to attend, not just to the grand themes, but also to the precision of his spare writing.
Although McEwan's later works are more overtly political, more humane, and more ostentatiously literary than the early work, Dominic Head uncovers the continuity as well as the sense of evolution through the oeuvre. Head makes the case for McEwan's prominence - pre-eminence, even - in the canon of contemporary British novelists. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-6657-3 (9780719066573)
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Ian Mcewan
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Dominic Head is Professor of Modern English Literature in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham -- .
Content
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 Innocent and 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' -- .
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 Innocent and 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' -- .