| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 152 pages) |
| Series |
Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature |
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Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Muriel Spark and the Problems of Biography / David Goldie -- 2. Poetic Perception in the Fiction of Muriel Spark / Vassiliki Kolocotroni -- 3. Body and State in Spark's Early Fiction / Michael Gardiner -- 4. Stranger Spark / Marilyn Reizbaum -- 5. Muriel Spark and the Politics of the Contemporary / Adam Piette -- 6. Spark, Modernism and Postmodernism / Matthew Wickman -- 7. Muriel Spark as Catholic Novelist / Gerard Carruthers -- 8. Muriel Spark's Break with Romanticism / Paddy Lyons -- 9. Postwar Contexts of Spark's Writing / Randall Stevenson -- 10. Muriel Spark's Crimes of Wit / Drew Milne |
| Summary |
This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It encompasses the range of Spark's output, pursuing contextual lines of approach including biography, geography, gender, identity, nation and religion, and considering her legacy and continuing influence in the twenty-first century. Spark emerges here as a serious thinker on issues as diverse as the Welfare State, secularisation, decolonisation, and anti-psychiatry, and a writer whose work may be placed alongside Proust, Joyce, Nabokov, and Lessing. The critics collected here are mindful of how, although overwhelmingly known as a novelist, by the time of her first novel, The Comforters, in 1957, Spark already had a significant profile through poetry, biographical criticism, and literary journalism, as chair of the Poetry Society and editor of the Poetry Review, and as author or co-author of a number of scholarly studies of writers including Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, the BrÃœntes, Cardinal Newman, and John Masefield. Within a relatively modest space this Companion touches on the whole range of Spark's work and, in introducing the oeuvre thematically for those looking to explore this elegant and challenging author further, also sets the agenda for future Spark studies. Key Features A collection of original, specially commissioned chapters by leading experts in the field Covers the whole spectrum of Spark's work Addresses the key issues and themes in Spark's work without losing sight of the questions of form and content Provides original insights into the contexts of Spark's work as viewed through literary theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Spark, Muriel -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Spark, Muriel fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gardiner, Michael, 1970-
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Maley, Willy.
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| LC no. |
2010534718 |
| ISBN |
9780748637706 |
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0748637702 |
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6612749717 |
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9786612749711 |
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