Overview

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most established, and controversial, writers. 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 features selections from published interviews with Ian McEwan and covers all of the writer's novels to date, including his latest novel Saturday.

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Author:   M. Hutton ,  Peter Childs
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Edition:   2005 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.288kg
ISBN:  

9781403919083

ISBN 10:   1403919089
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   20 September 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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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.

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