Ian McEwan : art and politics / Pascal Nicklas (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nicklas, Pascal.

Series:

Anglistik & Englischunterricht ; 73.

Anglistik und Englischunterricht, 0344-8266 ; Band 73

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

McEwan, Ian--Criticism and interpretation.

McEwan, Ian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

HauptbeschreibungIan McEwan's work is paradigmatic for the intricate relationship between art and politics in British fiction. Whereas his early work is more concerned with the family and its perversions, there is a definite politicization after 'The Comfort of Strangers' (1981). The years between McEwan's Venetian novel and 'The Child in Time' (1987) was a period of gestation: he wrote the libretto 'Or Shall We Die?' (1983) and the script for 'The Ploughman's Lunch' (1985) taking up nuclear disarmament and Thatcherism. McEwan saw these works as 'A Move Abroad' (1989) and returned t

Contents:

Cover; Titelei; Contents; Preface; Pascal Nicklas (Leipzig and Berlin)The Ethical Question: Art and Politics in the Work of IanMcEwan; Peter Childs (University of Gloucestershire)Contemporary McEwan and Anosognosia; Anja Müller-Wood (Mainz)The Murderer as Moralist or, The Ethical Early McEwan; Roland Weidle (Bochum)The Ethics of Metanarration: Empathy in Ian McEwan'sThe Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, Atonementand Saturday; Katherina Dodou (Uppsala)Dismembering a Romance of Englishness.Images of Childhood in Ian McEwan's The Innocent

Lynn Guyver (Warwick)Post-Cold War Moral Geography.The Politics of McEwan's Poetics in The InnocentDr. Lars Heiler [Universität Kassel]Unleashing the Black Dogs.Cathartic Horror and Political Commitment in The Innocentand Black Dogs; Elsa Cavalié (Université de Toulouse)""She would rewrite the past so that the guilty became theinnocent"": Briony's House of Fiction; Caroline Lusin (University of Heidelberg)'We Daydream Helplessly'.The Poetics of (Day)Dreams in Ian McEwan's Novels; Erik Martiny""A Darker Longing"": Shades of Nihilism in ContemporaryTerrorist Fiction

Helga Schwalm (Berlin)Figures of Authorship, Empathy, & The Ethics of Narrative(Mis-)Recognition in Ian McEwan's Later FictionBarbara Puschmann-Nalenz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)Ethics in Ian McEwan's Twenty-First Century Novels.Individual and Society and the Problem of Free Will; Contributors' Addresses

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 30, 2014).

ISBN:

9783825373276

3825373274

OCLC:

779141581