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Informationen zum Autor LYNN WELLS is Associate Professor of English, University of Regina, Canada. She has taught Ian McEwan's fiction at both undergraduate and graduate levels and is author of Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction (Rodopi 2003). Klappentext This introduction to the work of Ian McEwan places his fiction in historical and theoretical context. It explores his biography, literary techniques and the issues of ethics and representation. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author it also offers an overview of the critical reception McEwan's work has provoked. Zusammenfassung This introduction to the work of Ian McEwan places his fiction in historical and theoretical context. It explores his biography! literary techniques and the issues of ethics and representation. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author it also offers an overview of the critical reception McEwan's work has provoked. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's PrefacePrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsPART I: INTRODUCTIONTimelineIntroductionA Biographical ReadingPART II: MAJOR WORKS The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers The Child in Time The Innocent and Black Dogs Enduring Love Amsterdam and On Chesil Beach Atonement Saturday PART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS Author Interview Other Writings Critical Reception Further Reading and Bibliography Index.
List of contents
General Editor's Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Timeline
Introduction
A Biographical Reading
PART II: MAJOR WORKS
The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers
The Child in Time
The Innocent and Black Dogs
Enduring Love
Amsterdam and On Chesil Beach
Atonement
Saturday
PART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS
Author Interview
Other Writings
Critical Reception
Further Reading and Bibliography
Index.
About the author
Lynn Wells
