Muriel spark : twenty-first-century perspectives / edited by David J. Herman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herman, David J., editor.

Series:

A Modern Fiction Studies Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spark, Muriel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 241 pages)

Other Title:

Muriel Spark

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2010]

Contents:

Part I. Spark as Scottish and World Author

Part II. Situating Spark in Postwar Culture

Part III. Reading Spark.

“Fully to Savour Her Position”: Muriel Spark and Scottish Identity

“The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World”: Muriel Spark and the New Yorker

Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and Psychosis

Muriel Spark and the Meaningof Treason

Reading Spark in the Age of Suspicion

Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the Object

The Mandelbaum Gate: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic Gag

“Her Lips Are Slightly Parted”: The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat

“Look for One Thing and You Find Another”: The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's Memento Mori

Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with Intent.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (ACLS, viewed December 1, 2022).

Publisher Number:

2027/heb33982 hdl