Understanding Ian McEwan

Understanding Ian McEwan

by Malcolm, David

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"Understanding Ian McEwan provides a full discussion of the fiction written by one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work - admired by critics for its polished, understated treatment of themes of aberrance and obsession - in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the twentieth century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to feminism, concern with rationalism and scienc…

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  • Full title :Understanding Ian McEwan / David Malcolm.

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"Understanding Ian McEwan provides a full discussion of the fiction written by one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work - admired by critics for its polished, understated treatment of themes of aberrance and obsession - in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the twentieth century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to feminism, concern with rationalism and science, use of moral perspective, and proclivity toward fragmentation."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2002.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:216 pages ; : 19 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1570034362, 9781570034367
  • oclc:ocm47120299
  • LC Classification:PR6063.C4
  • Dewey Decimal:823/.914

Table of Contents

Understanding Ian McEwan -- The short stories : First love, last rites and In between the sheets -- Fiction and evil (I) : The cement garden -- Fiction and evil (II) : The comfort of strangers -- Change, dystopia, and the way out : The child in time -- Brushes with history (I) : The innocent -- Brushes with history (II) : Black dogs -- Science and fictions : Enduring love -- Other works : screenplays, the oratorio, children's fiction, and Amsterdam.

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