Alexa Alfer

A.S. Byatt

Critical storytelling

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byattâ s work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byattâ s fictions up to and including The Childrenâ s Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. -- .

Produktdetails

• Contemporary British Novelists
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780719066528
• ISBN-10: 0719066522
• Artikelnr.: 32465249

Autorenporträt

Alexa Alfer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern and Applied Languages at the University of Westminster Amy Edwards de Campos completed her doctorate at Worcester College, Oxford, and now works at the University of East London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Fathers, Sisters and the Anxiety of Influence: The Shadow
of the Sun and The Game 2. Writing the Contemporary: The Virgin in the
Garden and Still Life 3. Two Cultures: Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman 4.
Tradition and Transformation: Possession and Fairy Tales 5. The Dark Side
of the Tale: The Children's Book, The Biographer's Tale and Angels and
Insects Critical Storytelling: Peopling the Paper House Bibliography