This book offers a discussion of seven "canonical" novels by Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, Atonement, On Chesil Beach), examining the multiple frames of their structure and meanings.
This book offers a discussion of seven "canonical" novels by Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, Atonement, On Chesil Beach), examining the multiple frames of their structure and meanings.
Irena Ksi¿¿opolska is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw.
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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction The author The text: informed misreadings The context Critical approaches Exemplifying the method: the early short stories Exhibit 1: "Homemade" - reading silence, reading against irony Exhibit 2: "Solid Geometry" - a story of deconstruction Exhibit 3: "Butterflies" - a story of the reader's entrapment Exhibit 4: "Reflections of a Kept Ape" - metafiction par excellence I. Inverting Reality in Fiction: The Cement Garden A dream within a dream Liminal nightmares Voices, visions, delusions II. Inverting Metafiction: The Comfort of Strangers The oneiric city Intimate strangers, monstrous doubles The villains The victims The carnivorous city Inverted metafiction III. Inverting Time: The Child in Time Dystopia now The voice and the eye The time machine The clock and The Bell The forking paths: the conception scene Frames: the abduction scene The child in language The double: Charles Darke's case Enchanted time: the other girl IV. Inverting Story: The Innocent The unwritten novel: first ideas Narration: the phantom frame Levels of clearance The city of spies Innocence V. Inverting History: Black Dogs The words of a dead (wo)man are modified in the guts of the living The shadow line "I cannot quite remember" Postmemory and post-witnesses VI. Inverting the Authors: Atonement Postmodernism with a moral Drafts and versions The puzzle of the letters, the puzzle of the dates The hidden "author" VII. (Mis)Reading against Misreadings: On Chesil Beach Nostalgic memory Metamorphoses: music, writing and shared memory - "Theft" Arrested development The (m)Elodie of memory Concluding Thoughts Enduring Love: writing letters to oneself Amsterdam: "he alone would make the speech" Saturday: metafiction as (un)seeing through another's eyes Solar: unwriting the hero Sweet Tooth: metafiction as a spy game The Children Act: unnatural narration Nutshell: unnatural narrator in a metafictional Hamlet Machines like Me: sleeping with the enemy Lessons: auto-bi(bli)ography References Index
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction The author The text: informed misreadings The context Critical approaches Exemplifying the method: the early short stories Exhibit 1: "Homemade" - reading silence, reading against irony Exhibit 2: "Solid Geometry" - a story of deconstruction Exhibit 3: "Butterflies" - a story of the reader's entrapment Exhibit 4: "Reflections of a Kept Ape" - metafiction par excellence I. Inverting Reality in Fiction: The Cement Garden A dream within a dream Liminal nightmares Voices, visions, delusions II. Inverting Metafiction: The Comfort of Strangers The oneiric city Intimate strangers, monstrous doubles The villains The victims The carnivorous city Inverted metafiction III. Inverting Time: The Child in Time Dystopia now The voice and the eye The time machine The clock and The Bell The forking paths: the conception scene Frames: the abduction scene The child in language The double: Charles Darke's case Enchanted time: the other girl IV. Inverting Story: The Innocent The unwritten novel: first ideas Narration: the phantom frame Levels of clearance The city of spies Innocence V. Inverting History: Black Dogs The words of a dead (wo)man are modified in the guts of the living The shadow line "I cannot quite remember" Postmemory and post-witnesses VI. Inverting the Authors: Atonement Postmodernism with a moral Drafts and versions The puzzle of the letters, the puzzle of the dates The hidden "author" VII. (Mis)Reading against Misreadings: On Chesil Beach Nostalgic memory Metamorphoses: music, writing and shared memory - "Theft" Arrested development The (m)Elodie of memory Concluding Thoughts Enduring Love: writing letters to oneself Amsterdam: "he alone would make the speech" Saturday: metafiction as (un)seeing through another's eyes Solar: unwriting the hero Sweet Tooth: metafiction as a spy game The Children Act: unnatural narration Nutshell: unnatural narrator in a metafictional Hamlet Machines like Me: sleeping with the enemy Lessons: auto-bi(bli)ography References Index
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