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Ian McEwan: Art and Politics
Herausgeber: Nicklas, Pascal
anglistik & englischunterricht, Bd. 73
2012
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Abstract
Ian 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 to the novel with the caustically political ‘The Child in Time’. All his later novels have strong political undertones most drastically visualized in ‘The Innocent’ (1990): Otto’s mutilated corpse as an image of Berlin. In ‘Saturday’ (2005), the mass rally against the Iraq War in 2003 is the background against which the Perowne’s Bloomsday takes place. Similarly, in ‘Black Dogs’ (1992) or ‘Amsterdam’ (1998) politics are shown in their complex relationship to art which is also celebrated in ‘The Atonement’ (2001).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | C | ||
| Titelei | 1 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Preface | 7 | ||
| Pascal Nicklas (Leipzig and Berlin)The Ethical Question: Art and Politics in the Work of IanMcEwan | 9 | ||
| Peter Childs (University of Gloucestershire)Contemporary McEwan and Anosognosia | 23 | ||
| Anja Müller-Wood (Mainz)The Murderer as Moralist or, The Ethical Early McEwan | 39 | ||
| Roland Weidle (Bochum)The Ethics of Metanarration: Empathy in Ian McEwan'sThe Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, Atonementand Saturday | 57 | ||
| Katherina Dodou (Uppsala)Dismembering a Romance of Englishness.Images of Childhood in Ian McEwan's The Innocent | 73 | ||
| Lynn Guyver (Warwick)Post-Cold War Moral Geography.The Politics of McEwan's Poetics in The Innocent | 87 | ||
| Dr. Lars Heiler [Universität Kassel]Unleashing the Black Dogs.Cathartic Horror and Political Commitment in The Innocentand Black Dogs | 103 | ||
| Elsa Cavalié (Université de Toulouse)"She would rewrite the past so that the guilty became theinnocent": Briony's House of Fiction | 119 | ||
| Caroline Lusin (University of Heidelberg)'We Daydream Helplessly'.The Poetics of (Day)Dreams in Ian McEwan's Novels | 137 | ||
| Erik Martiny"A Darker Longing": Shades of Nihilism in ContemporaryTerrorist Fiction | 159 | ||
| Helga Schwalm (Berlin)Figures of Authorship, Empathy, & The Ethics of Narrative(Mis-)Recognition in Ian McEwan's Later Fiction | 173 | ||
| Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)Ethics in Ian McEwan's Twenty-First Century Novels.Individual and Society and the Problem of Free Will | 187 | ||
| Contributors' Addresses | 213 |
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