Ian McEwan : contemporary critical perspectives 2nd edition / edited by Sebastian Groes.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Chronology of Ian McEwan's Life; INTRODUCTION A Cartography of the Contemporary: Mapping Newness in the Work of Ian McEwan; CHAPTER ONE Surrealist Encounters in Ian McEwan's Early Work; The Pornographic Imagination in First Love, Last Rites; In Between the Sheets: Vulgar Materialism and the Politics of Formlessness; The Cement Garden: Vertigo and the Surrealist Turn; CHAPTER TWO 'Profoundly dislocating and infinite in possibility': Ian McEwan's Screenwriting.

Introduction: Moving AbroadMcEwan the Postmodernist: 'Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration' and 'Solid Geometry'; McEwan's Historical 'Turn': The Imitation Game; The Anti-Thatcherite Triptych: The Ploughman's Lunch, The Good Son and Sour Sweet; CHAPTER THREE The Innocent as Anti-Oedipal Critique of Cultural Pornography; Cultural Pornography: an Introduction to the Geography of Childhood; The Innocent: Europe versus America; Modern Power Structures of Infantilization; Between Knowing and Not-knowing: Fiction-making; Conclusion: To Remain a World unto Oneself.

CHAPTER FOUR Words of War, War of Words: Atonement and the Question of PlagiarismIntroduction: A Weighty Obligation to Strict Accuracy; But What Really Happened? Historiographical Metafiction Revisited; Working Atmosphere to a Sufficient Pitch: Atonement's Use of Historical Source Material; Conclusion: Between History and Fiction; CHAPTER FIVE Postmodernism and the Ethics of Fiction in Atonement; The Great Tradition: McEwan and Leavis; As the Pompidou Does its Escalators: Postmodernism; From Modernism to Postmodernism: Fictional Fictions; Postmodernist and Leavisite Readings of Atonement.

CHAPTER SIX Ian McEwan's Modernist Time: Atonement and SaturdayThe Temporalities of The Child in Time; Time and Knowledge in Atonement; Atonement and Woolf; Saturday and the Modernist Novel; CHAPTER SEVEN Ian McEwan and the Modernist Consciousness of the City in Saturday; Darkest London; A Modernist Consciousness of the City: Three Types of Intertextuality; McEwan and the Modernist Hypercanon; Our Grand Centre of Life is London: McEwan and Matthew Arnold; CHAPTER EIGHT On Chesil Beach: Another 'Overrated' Novella?; CHAPTER NINE Solar: Apocalypse Not; The Great Disappointment.

Solar and the NoughtiesThe Tyranny of the Grotesque Body; A Nest of Mouldy Parables; Against Apocalypse -- Now and Again; INTO THE ARCHIVE 'Untitled': A Minute Story; AFTERWORD Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth : 'Put in porphyry and marble do appear'; Journeys without Maps: An Interview with Ian McEwan; References; Further Reading; Index.

Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working today. His books are both critically - and academically - acclaimed and embraced by readers across the world. Although primarily a novelist, he has also written short stories, television plays, a libretto, a children's book and a film adaptation. Across these many forms his work retains a distinctive character that explores questions of morality, place and history, nationhood, sexuality and gender. Now fully updated for its second edition, this guide brings together a collection of new critical perspectives.

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