Ian McEwan

ISBN-13: 9781403987822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 176 str.

Lynn Wells

Opis

This introduction to the work of Ian McEwan places his fiction in historical and theoretical context. It explores his biography, literary techniques and the issues of ethics and representation. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author it also offers an overview of the critical reception McEwan's work has provoked.

Spis treści

General Editor's Preface .- Preface.- Acknowledgements .- List of Abbreviations.- PART I: INTRODUCTION .- Timeline.- Introduction.- A Biographical Reading.- PART II: MAJOR WORKS .- The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers.- The Child in Time  .- The Innocent and Black Dogs .- Enduring Love.- Amsterdam and On Chesil Beach.- Atonement  .- Saturday .- PART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS.- Author Interview .- Other Writings.- Critical Reception.- Further Reading and Bibliography .- Index.

O autorze

LYNN WELLS is Associate Professor of English, University of Regina, Canada. She has taught Ian McEwan's fiction at both undergraduate and graduate levels and is author of Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction (Rodopi 2003).