Imagining the Real
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Köp båda 2 för 1694 krThis comprehensive study of A. S. Byatts work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatts works of fiction up to and including her Man-Booker-shortlisted novel The Childrens Book (2009). The authors combine an...
"Essays on the Fiction of A. S. Byatt sets a very high standard for all subsequent research on this important author....[T]he volume is essential reading for anyone concerned with the broader contexts of Byatt's work....All of the essays in the volume provide important tools for rethinking Byatt's place within late 20th-, early 21st-century literature and culture."-David Herman Professor North Carolina State University "I enjoyed reading the manuscript and found the collection to be both absorbing and varied."-Jennifer Green-Lewis Associate Professor of English George Washington University "The editors have compiled-and themselves contributed to-a very fine collection of critical essays on the fictions of A. S. Byatt....The standard of writing and thinking displayed in the essays is uniformly high. Readers of Byatt's fiction will come away from this collection with a deeper understanding of her interests, methods, and achievements."-Dr. Frederick M. Holmes Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada "This engaging and comprehensive collection of essays on the fiction of A. S. Byatt illuminates her entire body of work, from the early novels to the most recent....Alexa Alfer's essay on Byatt's particular brand of literary realism typifies the strength and sophistication of the collection."-Dr. Margaret Soltan Associate Professor of English George Washington University .,."particularly reliable and useful...The essays in this collection push our knowledge of Byatt's ideas and skills a little further in many areas...many Byatt fans will take up the challenge of these scholars and use their work to push our awareness and appreciation of Byatts work even further in the future."-European Journal of English Studies ?...particularly reliable and useful...The essays in this collection push our knowledge of Byatt's ideas and skills a little further in many areas...many Byatt fans will take up the challenge of these scholars and use their work to push our awareness and appreciation of Byatts work even further in the future.?-European Journal of English Studies ?Highly recommended for general readers and upper-division undergraduates through faculty.?-CHOICE "Highly recommended for general readers and upper-division undergraduates through faculty."-CHOICE ..."particularly reliable and useful...The essays in this collection push our knowledge of Byatt's ideas and skills a little further in many areas...many Byatt fans will take up the challenge of these scholars and use their work to push our awareness and appreciation of Byatts work even further in the future."-European Journal of English Studies
ALEXA ALFER is affiliated with Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. She has written on A. S. Byatt, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Virginia Woolf, and has taught extensively on 20th-century British fiction. She recently edited A. S. Byatt in Focus for the German journal Anglistik and is the coauthor of the first comprehensive primary and secondary A. S. Byatt bibliography. MICHAEL J. NOBLE is a Fellow of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has taught widely on British fiction and drama. His research on A. S. Byatt, George Elliot, Samuel Beckett, etc. has appeared in such journals as the CEA Critic, Encyclia, and the Explicator. Most recently, he has been working with electronic media, designing online educational applications and development tools.
Introduction by Alexa Alfer and Michael J. Noble Of Prisms and Prose: Reading Paintings in A. S. Byatt's Work by Michael Worton A Modern "Seer Blest": The Visionary Child in The Virgin in the Garden by Judith Plotz Realism and Its Discontents: The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life by Alexa Alfer A Tower of Tongues: Babel Tower and the Art of Memory by Michael J. Noble In Search of Self and Self-Fulfillment: Themes and Strategies in A. S. Byatt's Early Novels by Kuno Schuhmann "What's Love Got to Do with It?": Postmodernism and Possession by Jackie Buxton Conclusion in Possession by Jean-Louis Chevalier Wonder-Tales Hiding a Truth: Retelling Tales in The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by Annegret Maack "Forever Possibilities. And Impossibilities, of course": Women and Narrative in The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by Jane Campbell Writing Natural History: "Morpho Eugenia" by Sally Shuttleworth Angels and Insects: Theory, Analogy, Metamorphosis by Michael Levenson True Stories and the Facts in Fiction by A. S. Byatt Bibliography Index