Essays on the fiction of A.S. Byatt : imagining the real / edited by Alexa Alfer and Michael J. Noble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alfer, Alexa, 1968-

Noble, Michael J., 1968-

Series:

Contributions to the study of world literature 0738-9345 ; no. 110.

Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 110

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023--Criticism and interpretation.

Byatt, A. S.

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 224 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.

Summary:

Presents the first substantive inquiry into A. S. Byatt's fiction to date.

Contents:

Of Prisms and Prose: Reading Paintings in A. S. Byatt's Work / Michael Worton 15

A Modern "Seer Blest": The Visionary Child in The Virgin in the Garden / Judith Plotz 31

Realism and Its Discontents: The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life / Alexa Alfer 47

A Tower of Tongues: Babel Tower and the Art of Memory / Michael J. Noble 61

In Search of Self and Self-Fulfilment: Themes and Strategies in A. S. Byatt's Early Novels / Kuno Schuhmann 75

"What's love got to do with it?": Postmodernism and Possession / Jackie Buxton 89

Conclusion in Possession / Jean-Louis Chevalier 105

Wonder-Tales Hiding a Truth: Retelling Tales in "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" / Annegret Maack 123

"Forever possibilities. And impossibilities, of course": Women and Narrative in The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye / Jane Campbell 135

Writing Natural History: "Morpho Eugenia" / Sally Shuttleworth 147

Angels and Insects: Theory, Analogy, Metamorphosis / Michael Levenson 161

True Stories and the Facts in Fiction / A. S. Byatt 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-216) and index.

ISBN:

0313315183

OCLC:

45963192