Coming to terms with crisis
Subtitle: disorientation and reorientation in the novels of Ian McEwan
By: Swantje Möller
Series: Anglistische Forschungen -- Bd. 415; Anglistische Forschungen -- Heft 415.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9783825358808
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Crisis in literature; Ethics in literature
Notes: Slightly revised version of the author's dissertation--Universität Köln, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Disorientation and reorientation in postmodernity: positions in philosophy, pscyhology, and literary theory; title: Postmodernity as an age of disorientation: contingency and heterogeneity; title: Orientation and identity: inescapable frameworks and the dialogical self; title: Literature and ethics: texts as others; title: Contingency and crisis: The child in time, Enduring love, and Atonement; title: "The written word can be the very means by which the self and the world connect": storytelling as a means of orientation; title: Intertextuality and the role of literary tradition; title: "Two cultures": negotiating conflicting epistemological frameworks; title: "The simple truth that other people are as real as you": taking perspectives, experiencing alterity; title: Transitions and transformations: The innocent, Black dogs, and On Chesil Beach; title: Leaving innocence behind: knowledge and orientation in The Innocent, Black dogs, and On Chesil Beach; title: "Not quite the comfort it had been to a preceding generation": Englishness in transition; title: Dealing with "civilization's worst moods": history, anamnesis, violence; title: Mapping spaces, mapping selves; title: Failure of communication and "the power of words to make the unseen visible"; title: Self and society: The cement garden, The comfort of strangers, Amsterdam, and Saturday; title: Order, disorder, and disorientation in The cement garden, the comfort of strangers, Amsterdam, and Saturday; title: "Fascinating violations": power struggles and the imposition of order; title: "Conspiracies of silence" and talking cures: dialogue as encounter with the other; title: "When anything can happen, everything matters": responsibility, agency, and solidarity; title: Conclusion.