Research Catalog

Title

Coming to terms with crisis : disorientation and reorientation in the novels of Ian McEwan / Swantje Möller.

Author

Möller, Swantje.

Publication

Heidelberg : Winter, c2011.

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Holdings

Details

Description

188 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Anglistische Forschungen ; Bd. 415

Uniform Title

Anglistische Forschungen ; Heft 415.

Subject

• Crises in literature
• Ethics in literature
• McEwan, Ian > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Slightly revised version of the author's dissertation--Universität Köln, 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Disorientation and reorientation in postmodernity: positions in philosophy, pscyhology, and literary theory -- Postmodernity as an age of disorientation: contingency and heterogeneity -- Orientation and identity: inescapable frameworks and the dialogical self -- Literature and ethics: texts as others -- Contingency and crisis: The child in time, Enduring love, and Atonement -- "The written word can be the very means by which the self and the world connect": storytelling as a means of orientation -- Intertextuality and the role of literary tradition -- "Two cultures": negotiating conflicting epistemological frameworks -- "The simple truth that other people are as real as you": taking perspectives, experiencing alterity -- Transitions and transformations: The innocent, Black dogs, and On Chesil Beach -- Leaving innocence behind: knowledge and orientation in The Innocent, Black dogs, and On Chesil Beach -- "Not quite the comfort it had been to a preceding generation": Englishness in transition -- Dealing with "civilization's worst moods": history, anamnesis, violence -- Mapping spaces, mapping selves -- Failure of communication and "the power of words to make the unseen visible" -- Self and society: The cement garden, The comfort of strangers, Amsterdam, and Saturday -- Order, disorder, and disorientation in The cement garden, the comfort of strangers, Amsterdam, and Saturday -- "Fascinating violations": power struggles and the imposition of order -- "Conspiracies of silence" and talking cures: dialogue as encounter with the other -- "When anything can happen, everything matters": responsibility, agency, and solidarity -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 3825358801
• 9783825358808

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library