Theorising Muriel Spark

Author : M. McQuillan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230504264

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Theorising Muriel Spark by M. McQuillan Pdf

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 : M. McQuillan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0333794141

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Theorising Muriel Spark by M. McQuillan Pdf

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 : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Postmodernism (Literature)
ISBN : 4269740248

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Muriel Spark's Postmodernism by 沢田知香子 Pdf

Author : Willy Maley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124165049

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Muriel Spark for Starters by Willy Maley Pdf

An introduction to the life and writings of Muriel Spark. The main aim is to give the flavour of the writing, including the best of the novels. Since Spark is the writer who practically invented the idea of a prime, let this book stand as a primer, intended to prime readers for the future pleasure of reading one of Scotland's brightest literary sta

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1581 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192446

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set by Brian W. Shaffer Pdf

This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

Author : Martin Stannard
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297857785

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Muriel Spark by Martin Stannard Pdf

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 : David Herman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801895531

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Muriel Spark by David Herman Pdf

"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 : Bryan Cheyette
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780746309070

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Muriel Spark by Bryan Cheyette Pdf

Muriel Spark is widely considered to be one of the most gifted and innovative British novelists of her generation.Professor Cheyette's study is the first to explore her twenty novels as a whole and includes discussion of her short stories, poems and literary criticism. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Spark's best known work, is placed in a much broader social and literary context than is usual.

Author : Ruth Whittaker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1984-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349074648

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Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark by Ruth Whittaker Pdf

Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137265296

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Women’s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity by M. Joannou Pdf

An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.

Author : George Stade,Karen Karbiener
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116891

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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present by George Stade,Karen Karbiener Pdf

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.

Author : Brent Little,Florian Michel
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813236650

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Acts of Faith and Imagination by Brent Little,Florian Michel Pdf

Acts of Faith and Imagination wagers that fiction written by Catholic authors assists readers to reflect critically on the question: "what is faith?" To speak of a person's "faith-life" is to speak of change and development. As a narrative form, literature can illustrate the dynamics of faith, which remains in flux over the course of one's life. Because human beings must possess faith in something (whether religious or not), it inevitably has a narrative structure?faith ebbs and flows, flourishes and decays, develops and stagnates. Through an exploration of more than a dozen Catholic authors' novels and short stories, Brent Little argues that Catholic fiction encourages the reader to reflect upon their faith holistically, that is, the way faith informs one's affections, and how a person conceives and interacts with the world as embodied beings. Amidst the diverse stories of modern and contemporary fiction, a consistent pattern emerges: Catholic fiction portrays faith?at its most fundamental, often unconscious, level?as an act of the imagination. Faith is the way one imagines themselves, others, and creation. A person's primary faith conditions how they live in the world, regardless of the level of conscious reflection, and regardless of whether this is a "religious" faith. Acts of Faith and Imagination investigates the creative depth and vitality of the Catholic literary imagination by bringing late modern Catholic authors into dialogue with more contemporary ones. Readers will then consider well-known works, such as those by Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, and Muriel Spark in the fresh light of contemporary stories by Toni Morrison, Alice McDermott, Uwem Akpan, and several others.

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2656 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199725311

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature by David Scott Kastan Pdf

From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl

Author : Lyndsey Stonebridge
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748688913

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Judicial Imagination by Lyndsey Stonebridge Pdf

Tells the story of the struggle to imagine new forms of justice after Nuremberg.

Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : Penguin Adult HC/TR
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037407280

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Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark Pdf

Muriel Spark in prime form: one of her most enjoyable, complex, and instructive jeux d'esprit.