Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love" (Routledge Guides to Literature) - Softcover

Childs, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415345596 ISBN 13: 9780415345590

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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Peter Childs

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415345596
• ISBN 13: 9780415345590
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160