Ian Mcewan''s Enduring Love - A Routledge Study Guide

Informationen zum Autor Peter Childs Klappentext Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of Ian McEwan's haunting novel providing a guide to the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it. Zusammenfassung Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of Ian McEwan's haunting novel providing a guide to the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Text and Contexts The Text. The Author. Literary Contexts. Cultural Contexts Part 2: Critical History Part 3: Critical Readings After the Fall Kiernan Ryan 'I Don't Want Your Story': Open and Fixed Narratives in Enduring Love Martin Randall Enduring McEwan Rhiannon Davies Solipsism, Narrative and Love in Enduring Love Paul Edwards Seven Types of Unreliability Sean Matthews 'Believing is Seeing': The Eye of the Beholder Peter Childs Part 4: Adaptations Part 5: Further Reading and Web Resources

List of contents

Introduction  Part 1: Text and Contexts  The Text.  The Author.  Literary Contexts.  Cultural Contexts  Part 2: Critical History  Part 3: Critical Readings After the Fall Kiernan Ryan  'I Don't Want Your Story': Open and Fixed Narratives in Enduring Love Martin Randall Enduring McEwan Rhiannon Davies  Solipsism, Narrative and Love in Enduring Love Paul Edwards  Seven Types of Unreliability Sean Matthews  'Believing is Seeing': The Eye of the Beholder Peter Childs  Part 4: Adaptations  Part 5: Further Reading and Web Resources

Report

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Product details

• Authors: Peter Childs, Peter (Newman University College Childs
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2006
• EAN: 9780415345590
• ISBN: 978-0-415-34559-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Guides to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000