Ian McEwan: The Essential GuideIn Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Ian McEwan. This guide will deal with his themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will be accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. |
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Ian McEwan: The Child in Time, Enduring Love, Atonement Jonathan Noakes,Margaret Reynolds No preview available - 2002 |
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ANALYSE ascribing value Atonement attitudes ballooning accident Booker Prize Briony Briony's Cecilia Cement Garden CHAPTER EIGHT Chapter Eleven CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER ONE SECTION CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER THREE characterisation characters Child childcare childhood Clarissa Comfort of Strangers COMPARE AND CONTRAST Consider context create DISCUSSION OR ESSAYS emotional Enduring Love epistolary novel experience fiction Focus Handmaid's Tale happened Humpty Ian McEwan ideas images imagined innocence Jed Parry Jed's Joe Rose Joe's Jonathan Cape Julie's Kate language literary Lola Lola's Looking over Chapter mean memory metaphor Michael Berkeley Middlemarch narrative structure narrative technique narrative viewpoint narrator novel passage perspective phrases play plot Ploughman's Lunch point of view QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION reactions Read reader Reading activities relate RETELL Robbie Robbie's scene sense significance someone Stephen's storytelling suggest symbolic Tallis telling things truth unreliable narrator VINTAGE LIVING TEXTS VOCABULARY wanted whole women WORD CHOICE writing