| Description |
1 online resource (158 pages) |
| Series |
Gale virtual reference library |
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Twayne's English authors series ; TEAS 529 |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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Twayne's English authors series ; TEAS 529
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| Contents |
"Points on a Circle" -- Early Fiction: The Shadow of the Sun and The Game -- Short Stories -- The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life -- Possession: A Romance -- Angels and Insects: Two Novellas -- Conclusion: Byatt's "Ficticism." |
| Summary |
Kathleen Coyne Kelly has written the first full-length study of Byatt's oeuvre. Kelly shows how the early novels, along with Byatt's better-known recent work, illustrate the degree to which Byatt is at home with both the conventions of realism and the challenges of postmodernism. In all of her fiction, Byatt combines a passion for intellectual analysis with rich plotting and vivid characterization; increasingly, she is being recognized as one of the great British novelists of the late twentieth century. Throughout her novels and short stories, Byatt weaves a complex and erudite web of literary allusion and philosophical reflection. Kelly's study helps to make Byatt's work more accessible to students; at the same time, Kelly is able to engage the more sophisticated reader. A.S. Byatt is an elegant and informative introduction to an outstanding contemporary British author |
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of A.S. Byatt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-152) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
96023773 |
| ISBN |
0805738134 |
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9780805738131 |
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