Ian Mcewan's Enduring Love A Routledge Study Guide |
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| Author:
| Childs, Peter |
| Series title: | Routledge Guides to Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-134-28239-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world. Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of this haunting novel to offer:
- an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Enduring Love
- a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication...
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Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love (1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world. Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of this haunting novel to offer:
- an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Enduring Love
- a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present
- a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on Enduring Love, by Kiernan Ryan, Sean Matthews, Martin Randall, Paul Edwards, Rhiannon Davies and Peter Childs, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section
- cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
- suggestions for further reading.
Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Enduring Love and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it.