Ian McEwan: Subversive Readings, Informed Misreadings

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	The Author
	The Text: Informed Misreadings
	The Context
	Critical Approaches
	Exemplifying the Method: The Early Short Stories
		Exhibit 1: “Homemade” – Reading Silence, Reading Against Irony
		Exhibit 2: “Solid Geometry” – a Story of Deconstruction
		Exhibit 3: “Butterflies” – a Story of the Reader’s Entrapment
		Exhibit 4: “Reflections of a Kept Ape” – Metafiction Par Excellence
	Notes
I Inverting Reality in Fiction: The Cement Garden
	A Dream Within a Dream
	Liminal Nightmares
	Voices, Visions, Delusions
	Notes
II Inverting Metafiction: The Comfort of Strangers
	The Oneiric City
	Intimate Strangers, Monstrous Doubles
	The Villains
	The Victims
	The Carnivorous City
	Inverted Metafiction
	Notes
III Inverting Time: The Child in Time
	Dystopia Now
	The Voice and the Eye
	The Time Machine
	The Clock and The Bell
	The Forking Paths: The Conception Scene
	Frames: The Abduction Scene
	The Child in Language
	The Double: Charles Darke’s Case
	Enchanted Time: The Other Girl
	Notes
IV Inverting Story: The Innocent
	The Unwritten Novel: First Ideas
	Narration: The Phantom Frame
	Levels of Clearance
	The City of Spies
	Innocence
	Notes
V Inverting History: Black Dogs
	The Words of a Dead (Wo)man Are Modified in the Guts of the Living
	The Shadow Line
	“I Cannot Quite Remember”
	Postmemory and Post-Witnesses
	Notes
VI Inverting the Authors: Atonement
	Postmodernism With a Moral
	Drafts and Versions
	The Puzzle of the Letters, the Puzzle of the Dates
	The Hidden “Author”
	Notes
VII (Mis)reading Against Misreadings: On Chesil Beach
	Nostalgic Memory
	Metamorphoses: Music, Writing and Shared Memory – “Theft”
	Arrested Development
	The (M)Elodie of Memory
	Notes
Concluding Thoughts
	Enduring Love: Writing Letters to Oneself
	Amsterdam: “He Alone Would Make the Speech”
	Saturday: Metafiction as (Un)seeing Through Another’s Eyes
	Solar: Unwriting the Hero
	Sweet Tooth: Metafiction as a Spy Game
	The Children Act: Unnatural Narration
	Nutshell: Unnatural Narrator in a Metafictional Hamlet
	Machines Like Me: Sleeping With the Enemy
	Lessons: Auto-Bi(bli)ography
	Notes
References
Index