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Ian McEwan
In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the function and capacities of narrative fiction. McEwan’s novels treat issues that are central to our times: politics, and the promotion of vested interests; male violence and the problem of gender relations; science and the limits of rationality; nature and ecology; love and innocence; and the quest for an ethical worldview. Yet he is also an economical stylist: McEwan’s readers are called upon to attend, not just to the grand themes, but also to the precision of his spare writing. Although McEwan’s later works are more overtly political, more humane, and more ostentatiously literary than the early work, Dominic Head uncovers the continuity as well as the sense of evolution through the oeuvre. Head makes the case for McEwan’s prominence - pre-eminence, even - in the canon of contemporary British novelists.
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The Cambridge companion to Ian McEwan
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.
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The contemporary British novel since 2000
Focuses on the novels published since 2000 by twenty major British novelists
The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is in five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms 'realist', 'postmodernist', 'historical' and 'postcolonialist' fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their novels often obliges us to discuss their work with reference to more than one of the terms.
Also discusses the works of: Maggie O'Farrell, Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Salman Rushdie, Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters, James Robertson, Mohsin Hamid, Andrea Levy, and Aminatta Forna.
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The Cambridge Introduction to J. M. Coetzee
The South African novelist and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is widely studied around the world and attracts considerable critical attention. With the publication of Disgrace Coetzee began to enjoy popular as well as critical acclaim, but his work can be as challenging as it is impressive. This book is addressed to students and readers of Coetzee: it is an up-to-date survey of the writer's fiction and context, written accessibly for those new to his work. All of the fiction is discussed, and the brooding presence of the political situation in South Africa, during the first part of his career, is given serious attention in a comprehensive account of the author's main influences. The revealing strand of confessional writing in the latter half of Coetzee's career is given full consideration. This Introduction will help new readers understand and appreciate one of the most important and challenging authors in contemporary literature.
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The Cambridge introduction to J.M. Coetzee
The South African novelist and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is widely studied around the world and attracts considerable critical attention. With the publication of Disgrace Coetzee began to enjoy popular as well as critical acclaim, but his work can be as challenging as it is impressive. This book is addressed to students and readers of Coetzee: it is an up-to-date survey of the writer's fiction and context, written accessibly for those new to his work. All of the fiction is discussed, and the brooding presence of the political situation in South Africa, during the first part of his career, is given serious attention in a comprehensive account of the author's main influences. The revealing strand of confessional writing in the latter half of Coetzee's career is given full consideration. This Introduction will help new readers understand and appreciate one of the most important and challenging authors in contemporary literature.
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Adam Foulds
Adam Foulds has a growing reputation as one of the more significant twenty-first-century British novelists. An intimation as to why this might be is the seriousness with which he views the craft of writing. In a short essay for The Guardian on the importance of description in fiction, Foulds writes that ‘[t]hrough description, reality is broken down and reassembled according to what you, the author, desire’. Foulds continues this thought by prioritising aesthetic composition in the pursuit of verisimilitude: ‘The resulting words must be formally satisfying, finding an artistic pattern that has only tangentially to do with lived experience per
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Writing against the Nostalgic Grain: H. E. Bates in the 1950s
[...]there is an element of misperception about his achievement, and this helps to explain his neglect in academic criticism. [...]as John Su implies, this kind of nostalgic impulse may be an inherent feature of civilization, since 'the longing to return to a lost homeland', as 'a central feature of the Western literary tradition', is easily traced back to Homer. The reader is thus required to adopt a form of double-consciousness in which an understanding of the temptations of nostalgia is tempered by a realization of its self-destructive tendencies. [...]this double-consciousness governs an understanding of the formal constraints of the novel alongside the reception of the action. [...]that parallels the evolution of Richardson's love for Lydia, nostalgia supplies a more complex way of articulating the interaction - or clash - of past and present.
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Towards the ʹimplicate orderʹ
The Child in Timemarks a turning point in McEwan’s career: it was his first fiction to be clearly longer than novella length, and his first sustained attempt at a social novel, in which the private and the public are systematically intertwined. It is categorizable as a ‘Condition of England novel’ in some respects, with its projection of a fourth or fifth-term Thatcherite government becoming increasingly authoritarian;¹ yet McEwan produces a unique way of tracing the connections between the personal and the political, most notably through a poetic application of post-Einsteinian physics. This is a crucial moment in his career,
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