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Coming to terms with crisis; disorientation and reorientation in the novels of Ian McEwan.

In a slightly revised version of her 2008 doctoral dissertation for the University of Cologne, Möller places the work of contemporary British novelist McEwan in the context of postmodern ethics. Rather than examining each novel in chronological order, the usual approach, she places them into thematic clusters on disorientation and reorientation in postmodernity, contingency and crisis, and transitions and transformations. She does not provide an index. The price was converted from euros. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

"Tackling the morality of history"; ethics and storytelling in the works of Amitav Ghosh.

Hoydis (English, U. of Cologne, Germany) traces through the work of contemporary Indian writer Ghosh evidence for the duty of a novelist that he articulated in an interview. She begins by establishing a context and theoretical framework, which includes the ethics of historiography and facing the literary other. Then she looks at ethics and morality in seven novels. Among those topics are challenging modern myths in The Circle of Reason, the ethics of knowledge in The Calcutta Chromosome, the ethics of remembrance and nostalgia in The Shadow Lines, and the ethics of perception in The Glass Palace. There is no index. The binding, and the volume in general, is very high quality. The price was converted from euros. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)