Book Description
Provides a thorough overview of Ian McEwan's fiction, articulating his place in the canon of contemporary fiction.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108480330
Provides a thorough overview of Ian McEwan's fiction, articulating his place in the canon of contemporary fiction.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108570380
This Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan's work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is covered, and the connections as well as the developments across the oeuvre are considered. The essays offer both an assessment of McEwan's technical accomplishments and a sense of the contextual factors that have provided him with inspiration. This volume has been structured to highlight the points of intersection between literary questions and evaluations, and the treatment of contemporary socio-cultural issues and topics. For the more complex novels - such as Atonement - this book offers complementary perspectives. In this respect, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan serves as a prism of interpretation, revealing the various interpretive emphases each of McEwan's more complex works invite, and to show how his various recurring preoccupations run through his career.
Author : David James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110704023X
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 provides insight into the critical traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain.
Author : David Glover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521513375
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author : Peter Boxall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108483410
Gives a comprehensive critical picture of the development of British fiction from the election of Thatcher to the present.
Author : Jonathan Noakes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 144813725X
In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Ian McEwan. This guide will deal with his themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will be accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.
Author : Graham Wolfe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000951936
Novelists have long been attracted to theatre. Some have pursued success on the stage, but many have sought to combine these worlds, entering theatre through their fiction, setting stages on their novels’ pages, and casting actors, directors, and playwrights as their protagonists. The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction has convened an international community of scholars to explore the remarkable array of novelists from many eras and parts of the world who have created fiction from the stuff of theatre, asking what happens to theatre on the pages of novels, and what happens to novels when they collaborate with theatre. From J. W. Goethe to Louisa May Alcott, Mikhail Bulgakov, Virginia Woolf, and Margaret Atwood, some of history’s most influential novelists have written theatre-fiction, and this Companion discusses many of these figures from new angles. But it also spotlights writers who have received less critical attention, such as Dorothy Leighton, Agustín de Rojas Villandrando, Ronald Firbank, Syed Mustafa Siraj, Li Yu, and Vicente Blasco Ibañez, bringing their work into conversation with a vital field. A valuable resource for students, scholars, and admirers of both theatre and novels, The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction offers a wealth of new perspectives on topics of increasing critical concern, including intermediality, theatricality, antitheatricality, mimesis, diegesis, and performativity.
Author : Bruce Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107086205
This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.
Author : Morag Shiach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052185444X
The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.
Author : Irena Księżopolska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040021891
This book offers a discussion of seven “canonical” novels by Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, Atonement, On Chesil Beach), introducing radical new readings, which are offered not as ultimate and conclusive “solutions” of the textual puzzles, but as possibilities to engage with the text creatively, to enrich the critical consensus and restore interpretative freedom to the readers. This project formulates a strategy of “inclusive reading” – an approach to the text that does not seek to reduce it to a single interpretation, and yet is comprehensively informed through the analysis of the primary text, critical discussion, authorial comments and the context of the composition. Each reading demonstrates the metafictional structure of the texts, indicating that McEwan’s works may be treated as invitations to roam within their worlds, examining the multiple frames of their structure and the meanings generated thereby. All the chapters attend to submerged, repressed, or deliberately masked voices. The Cement Garden is seen as a multi-layered dream, with a shifting hierarchy of dreamers; The Comfort of Strangers is viewed as an inverted metafiction, with insubstantial characters corrupting more complex heroes; The Child in Time is read as Stephen’s book written for his dead daughter; The Innocent as a memory narrative of Leonard who refuses to notice Maria’s role as a spy. In Black Dogs the over-exposure of unreliability is studied as a screen for personal trauma; in the analysis of Atonement Briony’s claim to authorship is questioned and Cecilia is suggested as an alternative narrative agent. Finally, examining On Chesil Beach, both characters’ voices are reconstructed in search of the superior narrative power, which in the end is seen to be elusive, as the text seeks to undermine the hierarchy of voices.