The Fiction of Ian McEwan

ISBN-13: 9781403919083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 184 str.

Peter Childs; Nicholas Tredell

Opis

This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan's fiction. Criticism is drawn from selections in academic essays and articles, and reviews in newspapers, journals, magazines and websites, with editorial comment providing context, drawing attention to key points and identifying differences in critical perspectives. The book also includes selections from published interviews with Ian McEwan.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- The Fleshly Grail: First Love, Last Rites.- Underworld: In Between the Sheets.- A Nice Sleep: The Cement Garden.- The Desire to be a Victim: The Comfort of Strangers.- True Maturity: The Child in Time.- No Different From You: The Innocent.- Ça Suffit: Black Dogs.- Rationality is Its Own Kind of Innocence: Enduring Love.- Their Reasonable Laws: Amsterdam.- Storytelling as Self-justification: Atonement.- And Now, What Days Are These?: Saturday.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

PETER CHILDS is Pro Vice Chancellor, Research and Scholarship at Newman University, UK. He has published widely on postcolonial and twentieth-century literature. His recent publications include Modernism (2000), Contemporary Novelists (2004), and Reading Fiction: Opening the Text (2001), the last two of which are also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Blurb

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most established, and controversial, writers. This invaluable Guide offers a selection of key criticism on McEwan's novels and his two early collections of short stories. Peter Childs provides linking editorial commentary - offering context, drawing attention to key points, and identifying differences in critical perspectives - for the broad range of reviews and textual analyses that collectively form the best overview of this widely praised author. Short extracts, newspaper reviews, and longer discussions are woven together to illustrate the diverse ways in which McEwan's fiction has been read, critically reviewed and interpreted.

An introductory chapter provides a sketch of McEwan's career up to the present day, while the book also features selections from published interviews with the author. This Guide covers the early collections, First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets (1978), as well as all of the writer's novels to date, including The Cement Garden (1978), The Child in Time (1987), Enduring Love (1997), Atonement (2001), and his latest novel, Saturday (2005).