A.S. Byatt and the heliotropic imagination / Jane Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Jane, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination in literature.

Women in literature.

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

Byatt, A. S.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Campbell presents a comprehensive critical reading of Byatt's fiction from The shadow of the sun and The game, published in the 1960's, to A whistling woman (2002). The book begins with an overview of Byatt's writing and, drawing on her interviews and essays, sets forth the critical principles that inform the novelist's works. Following this introduction is a chronically structured account of the novels and short stories tracing Byatt's literary development. Campbell employs a critical perspective appropriate to the author's individualistic feminist stance, stressing the breadth of Byatt's intellectual concerns and her insistence on placing her female characters in a living, changing context of ideas and experience, especially in their search for creative voice.

Contents:

The Shadow of the Sun

The Game

The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life

Sugar and Other Stories

Possession: a Romance

Angels and Insects

The Matisse Stories

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice

The Biographer's Tale

Babel Tower and a Whistling Woman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610926039

9781280926037

1280926031

9781554580767

1554580765

OCLC:

753479474