An edition of Coming to terms with crisis
(2011)
Coming to terms with crisis
disorientation and reorientation in the novels of Ian McEwan
by Swantje Möller
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Coming to terms with crisis: disorientation and reorientation in the novels of Ian McEwan
2011, Winter
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Table of 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.
Edition Notes
Slightly revised version of the author's dissertation--Universität Köln, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-204).
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