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Understanding Ian McEwan (Understanding Contemporary British Literature)
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Hardcover. This discussion of the work of Ian McEwan places it in the context of British literature's particular dynamism at the end of the 20th century. It also examines McEwan's relationship to feminism, concern with rationalism and science, use of moral perspective, and proclivity toward fragmentation. Series: Understanding Contemporary British Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 184 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 324.
This is a discussion of the work of one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the 20th century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to feminism, concern with rationalism and science, use of moral perspective, and proclivity toward fragmentation. Malcolm offers close readings of McEwan's early short stories, which he recognizes as traditional and conservative in technique despite their shocking subject matter, and all of McEwan's novels. Employing the third novel, ""The Child in ... Read more
This is a discussion of the work of one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the 20th century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to feminism, concern with rationalism and science, use of moral perspective, and proclivity toward fragmentation. Malcolm offers close readings of McEwan's early short stories, which he recognizes as traditional and conservative in technique despite their shocking subject matter, and all of McEwan's novels. Employing the third novel, ""The Child in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Understanding Contemporary British Literature
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570034367
SKU
V9781570034367
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