...Jonathan Greenberg Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 HI Why Can’t Biologists Read Poetry? Ian McEwan s Enduring Love Jonathan Greenberg Since the reinvention of social Darwinism as sociobiology in the 1970s, and particularly since the reinvention of sociobiology as...

...Michael L. Ross Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 On a Darkling Planet: Ian McEwan s Saturday and the Condition of England Michael L. Ross /A lthough Ian McEwan’s recent best seller Saturday maintains through­ out a conspicuous air of up-to-the-minute internationalism, that...

...Hortense J. Spillers Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 Twentieth-Century Literature’s Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism, 2007 The winner of this year’s prize is Jonathan Greenberg’s “Why Can’t Biologists Read Poetry? Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love. ’’The judge is Hortense J...

... fragments of an atomized contemporary world, to pierce the veil, to reveal underlying truth” (198). Rather, it is to argue that a generation of writers working through and beyond the postmodern are practicing what Ian McEwan calls “some kind of balance between a fiction that is self-reflective on...

... representations “operate within a horizon of discourse that does not have the semantic tools to penetrate the mysteries of Muslim identity.” Nash takes writers like Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, and John 193 Noor Hashem Updike to task here, identifying only a few writers such as Mohsin Hamid in The...

... intransigent, albeit brittle, energy to these texts, a posture of refusal to conform to any standardized version of the “novel form” as it dominates the fiction market today: no rollicking adventures à la Chabon, nor Franzenesque discursiveness, nor liberal humanist levelheadedness in the McEwan vein...

... of the American dream. Similarly, Scheingold’s selected English examples demonstrate “how and with what consequences the shortcomings of the welfare state intrude into the lives of the affluent and the afflicted in Ian McEwan’s Saturday [(2005 the working class in Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday...

... resolved, in the domestic novels of Ian McEwan, Rachel Cusk, and Jon McGregor. Spencer’s decision to leave this avenue of thought unexplored reflects his desire to leave the nation behind, but also, perhaps, his sense that others have already explored these matters. He insists instead that it is...

... Carey, Ian McEwan, Joanna Trollope, Jane Smiley, Don DeLillo, Julian Barnes, and Jeanette Winterson. In all, Hogarth registered the names of 132 authors.2 In an interview with the Independent on 14 March, Hogarth claimed he was intending to sell the names back to the writers for a one-time...