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Author : Joseph Hynes
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029290023
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222419
Spark’s mind-bogglingly stunning 1957 debut With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a diabolic bookseller, human evil.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : Open Road Media Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504054946
Originally published: Great Britain: Macmillan and Co., 1965.
Author : Martin Stannard
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297857785
The long-awaited biography of one of the great writers of the twentieth century - 'a wonderful blend of scholarly fact and juicy storytelling' (Mail on Sunday). Muriel Spark ended was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Hers is a Cinderella story, the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae (1992), politely blurring the intensity of her darker moments: her relations with her brother, mother, son, husband; a terrifying period of hallucinations and subsequent depression; and the disastrously misplaced love she had felt for two men she had wanted to marry, Howard Sergeant and Derek Stanford. Aged nineteen, Spark left Scotland to marry in Southern Rhodesia, escaping back to Britain on a troopship in 1944 after her divorce. Her son returned in 1945 to be brought up by her parents in Edinburgh while she established herself as a poet and critic in London. After becoming a Roman Catholic in 1954, she began a novel, The Comforters, and with Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Bachelors rose rapidly into the literary stratosphere. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), with its adaptation into a successful stage-play and film, marked her full translation into international celebrity and from that point she went to live first in New York, then Rome, and finally Tuscany where for over thirty years, until her death in 2006, she shared a house with her companion, the artist Penelope Jardine.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219372
Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled, and many an old unsavory secret is dusted off.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782117698
'Muriel Spark's most celebrated novel . . . This ruthlessly and destructively romantic school ma'am is one of the giants of post-war fiction' Independent 'A brilliantly psychological fugue' Observer The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Muriel Spark's most significant and celebrated novel, and remains as dazzling as when it was first published in 1961. Miss Jean Brodie is a teacher unlike any other, proud and cultured, enigmatic and freethinking; a romantic, with progressive, sometimes shocking ideas and aspirations for the girls in her charge. At the Marcia Blaine Academy she takes a select group of girls under her wing. Spellbound by Miss Brodie's unconventional teaching, these devoted pupils form the Brodie set. But as the girls enter their teenage years and they become increasingly drawn in by Miss Brodie's personal life, her ambitions for them take a startling and dark turn with devastating consequences.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219754
Where does art start or reality end? Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance — or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association’s pompous director steals Fleur’s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811221597
Collects essays, reviews, and journal articles which analyze life, literature, faith, and other topics.
Author : Michael Gardiner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748637706
This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It encompasses the range of Spark's output, pursuing contextual lines of approach including biography, geography, gender, identity, nation and religion, and considering her legacy and continuing influence in the twenty-first century. Spark emerges here as a serious thinker on issues as diverse as the Welfare State, secularisation, decolonisation, and anti-psychiatry, and a writer whose work may be placed alongside Proust, Joyce, Nabokov, and Lessing. The critics collected here are mindful of how, although overwhelmingly known as a novelist, by the time of her first novel, The Comforters, in 1957, Spark already had a significant profile through poetry, biographical criticism, and literary journalism, as chair of the Poetry Society and editor of the Poetry Review, and as author or co-author of a number of scholarly studies of writers including Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, Cardinal Newman, and John Masefield. Within a relatively modest space this Companion touches on the whole range of Spark's work and, in introducing the oeuvre thematically for those looking to explore this elegant and challenging author further, also sets the agenda for future Spark studies.
Author : David Herman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801895531
"A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years."--Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh --Book Jacket
Author : M. McQuillan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230504264
Theorizing Muriel Spark is the first serious attempt to engage the writing of Muriel Spark in a sustained theoretical reading. It has a particular emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, postcolonial and deconstructive reading strategies. Drawing together a range of significant names in the field of contemporary literature and critical theory (including Judith Roof, Susan Sellers, Bryan Cheyette, Patricia Duncker, Nicholas Royle, Willy Maley, Julian Wolfreys, and Helene Cixous) this collection of essays deals with the full range of Spark's literary output. It concludes with a new interview with Muriel Spark.
Author : 沢田知香子
Publisher : Chikako SAWADA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Postmodernism (Literature)
ISBN : 4269740248
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081121494X
Four brand new tales are now added to New Directions' original 1997 cloth edition of Open to the Public.
Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221047
"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
Author : James Bailey
Publisher : EUP
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474475973
This book presents a detailed critical analysis of a period of significant formal and thematic innovation in Muriel Spark's literary career. Spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, it identifies formative instances of literary experimentation in texts including The Comforters, The Driver's Seat and The Public Image, with an emphasis on metafiction and the influence of the nouveau roman. As the first critical study to draw extensively on Spark's vast archives of correspondence, manuscripts and research, it provides a unique insight into the social contexts and personal concerns that dictated her fiction.
