Ian McEwan : Contemporary Critical Perspectives, 2nd edition
Sebastian Groes (ed.)Now fully updated for its second edition, this guide brings together a collection of new critical perspectives on McEwan's oeuvre, not only covering the early works and his writing for the screen but also incorporating detailed and original analyses of the later work, including new readings of his latest books, Solar and Sweet Toot h. With an updated and extended guide to further critical reading on McEwan, the book also includes an interview with the author himself, a chronology of his life, work and times and the full text of a lost early McEwan short story.
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HalfTitle 2
Series 3
Title 4
Copyright 5
Dedication 6
Contents 8
Foreword 10
Series Editors’ Preface 14
Acknowledgements 15
Contributors 16
Chronology of Ian McEwan’s Life 19
INTRODUCTION A Cartography of the Contemporary: Mapping Newness in the Work of Ian McEwan 22
CHAPTER ONE Surrealist Encounters in Ian McEwan’s Early Work 34
The Pornographic Imagination in First Love, Last Rites 36
In Between the Sheets: Vulgar Materialism and the Politics of Formlessness 41
The Cement Garden: Vertigo and the Surrealist Turn 44
CHAPTER TWO ‘Profoundly dislocating and infinite in possibility’: Ian McEwan’s Screenwriting 47
Introduction: Moving Abroad 47
McEwan the Postmodernist: ‘Jack Flea’s Birthday Celebration’ and ‘Solid Geometry’ 49
McEwan’s Historical ‘Turn’: The Imitation Game 54
The Anti-Thatcherite Triptych: The Ploughman’s Lunch, The Good Son and Sour Sweet 57
CHAPTER THREE The Innocent as Anti-Oedipal Critique of Cultural Pornography 64
Cultural Pornography: an Introduction to the Geography of Childhood 64
The Innocent: Europe versus America 68
Modern Power Structures of Infantilization 71
Between Knowing and Not-knowing: Fiction-making 73
Conclusion: To Remain a World unto Oneself 77
CHAPTER FOUR Words of War, War of Words: Atonement and the Question of Plagiarism 78
Introduction: A Weighty Obligation to Strict Accuracy 78
But What Really Happened? Historiographical Metafiction Revisited 80
Working Atmosphere to a Sufficient Pitch: Atonement’s Use of Historical Source Material 82
Conclusion: Between History and Fiction 90
CHAPTER FIVE Postmodernism and the Ethics of Fiction in Atonement 91
The Great Tradition: McEwan and Leavis 91
As the Pompidou Does its Escalators: Postmodernism 93
From Modernism to Postmodernism: Fictional Fictions 94
Postmodernist and Leavisite Readings of Atonement 97
CHAPTER SIX Ian McEwan’s Modernist Time: Atonement and Saturday 104
The Temporalities of The Child in Time 106
Time and Knowledge in Atonement 108
Atonement and Woolf 111
Saturday and the Modernist Novel 116
CHAPTER SEVEN Ian McEwan and the Modernist Consciousness of the City in Saturday 120
Darkest London 120
A Modernist Consciousness of the City: Three Types of Intertextuality 122
McEwan and the Modernist Hypercanon 124
Our Grand Centre of Life is London: McEwan and Matthew Arnold 129
CHAPTER EIGHT On Chesil Beach: Another ‘Overrated’ Novella? 136
CHAPTER NINE Solar: Apocalypse Not 144
The Great Disappointment 144
Solar and the Noughties 145
The Tyranny of the Grotesque Body 148
A Nest of Mouldy Parables 152
Against Apocalypse – Now and Again 155
INTO THE ARCHIVE ‘Untitled’: A Minute Story 158
AFTERWORD Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth : ‘Put in porphyry and marble do appear’ 160
Journeys without Maps: An Interview with Ian McEwan 165
References 177
Further Reading 187
Index 198
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Vanessa Guignery; Nicolas Tredell
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Atonement (2001)
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First Love, Last Rites : Stories
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Solar
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. While he coasts along in his professional life, Michael’s personal life is another matter entirely. His fifth marriage is crumbling under the weight of his infidelities. But this time the tables are turned: His wife is having an affair, and Michael realizes he is still in love with her. When Michael’s personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster. Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? A complex novel that brilliantly traces the arc of one man’s ambitions and self-deceptions, Solar is a startling, witty, and stylish new work from one of the world’s great writers.
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Peter Childs, Peter Childs, Peter Childs
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Saturday : [a novel
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Saturday : [a novel
In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement, follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne–a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children–plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor traffic accident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must set aside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he had in order to preserve the life that is dear to him.From the Trade Paperback edition.From Publishers WeeklyIn the predawn sky on a Saturday morning, London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne sees a plane with a wing afire streaking toward Heathrow. His first thought is terrorism--especially since this is the day of a public demonstration against the pending Iraq war. Eventually, danger to Perowne and his family will come from another source, but the plane, like the balloon in the first scene of Enduring Love, turns out to be a harbinger of a world forever changed. Meanwhile, the reader follows Perowne through his day, mainly via an interior monologue. His cerebral peregrination records, in turn, the meticulous details of brain surgery, a car accident followed by a confrontation with a hoodlum, a far-from-routine squash game, a visit to Perowne's mother in a nursing home and a family reunion. It is during the latter event, at the end of the day, that the ominous pall that has...
Julian Barnes : Contemporary Critical Perspectives
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Amsterdam : A Novel
A fragile friendship descends into hatred and revenge, in Ian McEwan’s darkly humorous 1998 Booker Prize-winning novel. "(F)unnier than anything McEwan has written before, though just as lethal" (Gabrielle Annan, The New York Review of Books).Gorgeous, feisty Molly Lane had many lovers, among them Clive Linley, Britain’s most famous composer, Vernon Halliday, editor of a respected broadsheet, and Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary - and tipped to be the next prime minister. When Clive and Vernon meet to pay their last respects to Molly at her funeral, they make a pact that will have unforeseen and profound consequences for everyone concerned."The boiling wit of Amsterdam won't be everyone's cup of tea, but those thirsty for satire will gulp down this little book... McEwan writes the sort of scathing retorts and witty repartee we wish we could think of in the heat of battle. On a broader scale, his portrayal of the symbiotic relationship between politicians and journalists is as damning as it is comic... This is a dark morality tale in the spirit of Evelyn Waugh's best work." - Ron Charles, The Christian Science MonitorIan McEwan is a critically acclaimed author and winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. His collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the 1975 Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement;...
Enduring Love
A homosexual attempts to lure a man away from his woman. It happens in England after the two men meet in a balloon accident. When the straight man declines the advances, the homosexual begins stalking him, contemplating ways to get rid of the woman. By the author of The Innocent
The Comfort of Strangers
An English couple on holiday encounters an unsettling stranger in Ian McEwan’s chilling psychological thriller about love, violence and obsession."As always, McEwan manages his own idiom with remarkable grace and inventiveness; his characters are at home in their dreams, and so is he." — The GuardianColin and Mary, holidaying in a city very much like Venice, are not having a good time. Then they meet Robert, a seedy and somewhat sinister bar owner, and his wife - and find that the bizarre encounter energises their deteriorating marriage. A twisted relationship develops among these four characters in a situation of mounting horror, until the final, shocking dénouement."Has you in its stranglehold from the first page to the last. McEwan has honed his prose style (always admirably spare) to tell his tale, and with all the skill of an accomplished torturer, he throws the occasional crumbs of comfort, as the tension becomes unbearable, only to snatch them away within moments." - ListenerIan McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller.
Black Dogs : A Novel
Ian McEwan’s brooding and occasionally sinister novel hints at how personal relationships can be beset by demons unleashed in wider human conflict."Superbly evocative prose... The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities." - The New York Times Book ReviewJeremy, the narrator, delves into the history of his in-laws, June and Bernard, who fell in love during World War II, joined the Communist party and honeymooned in France. There, June left Bernard, who returned to London to continue his political activism. She remained, isolated in a farmhouse, contemplating her mystical encounter with God and evil during a period she refers to as her ‘Black Dogs’."As in McEwan's last novel, The Innocent (1990), the Berlin Wall plays an important symbolic role in this fictional meditation on evil—a pseudo-memoir written from a post-cold-war perspective... McEwan explores the personal consequences of political ideas in this remarkably precise little novel. His lapidary prose neatly disguises his search for transcendence." - Kirkus ReviewsIan McEwan his collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the 1975 Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me. He was also shortlisted, for his...
SWEET TOOTH;A NOVEL
Serena Frome, the beautiful mathematician daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the Intelligence Service. The year is 1972: Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and Irish terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase but the fight goes on and MI5 hesitates at little to influence hearts and minds. Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent by her new employers on a secret mission that brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First, she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is deceiving whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage—trust no one. Ian McEwan masterfully entwines espionage and desire in an unforgettable story of intrigue, betrayal and love.