Ian McEwan's Enduring Love: A Routledge Study Guide

ISBN-13: 9780415345590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 160 str.

Peter Childs

Opis

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world. Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of this haunting novel to offer:

• an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Enduring Love
• a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present
• a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on Enduring Love, by Kiernan Ryan, Sean Matthews, Martin Randall, Paul Edwards, Rhiannon Davies and Peter Childs, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section
• cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
• suggestions for further reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Enduring Love and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it.

Recenzje

'What emerges clearly... is the extent to which the Routledge guides demonstrate the value of historicised readings, without burdening the first-time reader with too great an emphasis on the material reality with which the featured authors engage.' - Rod Mengham, The Times Higher Educational Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Text and Contexts  The Text.  The Author.  Literary Contexts.  Cultural Contexts  Part 2: Critical History  Part 3: Critical Readings After the Fall Kiernan Ryan  'I Don't Want Your Story': Open and Fixed Narratives in Enduring Love Martin Randall Enduring McEwan Rhiannon Davies  Solipsism, Narrative and Love in Enduring Love Paul Edwards  Seven Types of Unreliability Sean Matthews  'Believing is Seeing': The Eye of the Beholder Peter Childs  Part 4: Adaptations  Part 5: Further Reading and Web Resources

O autorze

Ian McEwan, geboren 1948, lebt in London. Schon seine ersten Erzählungen wurden 1976 mit dem Somerset-Maugham-Award ausgezeichnet. 1999 erhielt er den Shakespeare-Preis der Alfred-Toepfer-Stiftung für das Gesamtwerk und 2011 wurde er mit dem Jerusalem Preis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Ian McEwan ist Ehrenmitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences.