New Book of Essays on Ian McEwan's Work

Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Edited by Sebastian Groes
Continuum, 2009.
ISBN: 9780826497222

A valuable addition to McEwan scholarship, this collection of essays from the Contemporary Critical Perspectives series helps define and guide the future course of McEwan studies.

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Contents:

Preface: Ian McEwan and the Rational Mind, Matt Ridley

Introduction: A Cartography of the Contemporary: Mapping Newness in the Work of Ian McEwan, Sebastian Groes (Liverpool Hope University, UK)

1. Surreal Encounters in McEwan’s Early Work, Jeanette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

2. ‘Profoundly Dislocating and Infinite in Possibility’: Ian McEwan’s Screenwriting, M. Hunter Hayes (Texas A&M University, USA) & Sebastian Groes (Liverpool Hope University)

3. The Innocent as anti-Oedipal Critique of Cultural Pornography, Claire Colebrook (University of Edinburgh, UK)

4. War of the Words: Atonement and the Question of Plagiarism, Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University, UK)

5. Postmodernism and the Ethics of Fiction in Atonement, Alistair Cormack

6. Ian McEwan and Modernist Time: Atonement and Saturday, Laura Marcus (University of Edinburgh, UK)

7. Ian McEwan and the Modernist Consciousness of the City in Saturday, Sebastian Groes (Liverpool Hope University)

8. On Chesil Beach: another 'overrated' novella? Dominic Head (University of Nottingham)

Journeys without Maps: An Interview with Ian McEwan by Jon Cook (UEA, UK), Sebastian Groes (Liverpool Hope University, UK) and Victor Sage (UEA, UK)

Includes a chronology, bibliography of further readings, and an index.

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