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Ian McEwan /

Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working in the contemporary period. This guide brings together a collection of perspectives on McEwan's oeuvre, not only covering the early works and his writing for the screen but also incorporating detailed and or...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Groes, Sebastian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Series:Contemporary critical perspectives series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Ian McEwan and the Rational Mind; 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; CHAPTER TWO: 'Profoundly dislocating and infinite in possibility': Ian McEwan's Screenwriting; CHAPTER THREE: The Innocent as Anti-Oedipal Critique of Cultural Pornography; CHAPTER FOUR: Words of War, War of Words: Atonement and the Question of Plagiarism.