Muriel Spark's Early Fiction : : Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form / / James Bailey.
A compelling reappraisal of Spark’s approach to literary experimentationOffers a distinctive reappraisal of Spark’s fiction, which challenges the rigid critical framework that has long been applied to her writingInterrogates how Spark’s literary innovations work to facilitate moments of subversive s...
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Bailey, James, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Muriel Spark's Early Fiction : Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form / James Bailey. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2021 1 online resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Desegregation of Spark -- 1. ‘Author’s Ghosts’: Manifestations of the Supernatural in Spark’s Early Fiction -- 2. ‘The role in which you’ve cast me’: Reassessing the Myth of Spark -- 3. ‘Drama[s] of exact observation’: Spark and the Nouveau Roman -- 4. ‘A study, in a way, of self-destruction’: The Driver’s Seat and the Impotent Gaze -- Conclusion: Leaving the Hothouse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A compelling reappraisal of Spark’s approach to literary experimentationOffers a distinctive reappraisal of Spark’s fiction, which challenges the rigid critical framework that has long been applied to her writingInterrogates how Spark’s literary innovations work to facilitate moments of subversive satire and gendered social critiquePresents nuanced re-readings of some of Spark’s major works, as well as lesser-discussed texts such as her only stage play, Doctors of Philosophy, and early short storiesDraws upon detailed archival research to offer a unique insight into the social contexts and personal preoccupations that informed Spark’s writingThis book presents a detailed critical analysis of a period of significant formal and thematic innovation in Muriel Spark’s literary career. Spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, it identifies formative instances of literary experimentation in texts including The Comforters, The Driver’s Seat and The Public Image, with an emphasis on metafiction and the influence of the nouveau roman. As the first critical study to draw extensively on Spark’s vast archives of correspondence, manuscripts and research, it provides a unique insight into the social contexts and personal concerns that dictated her fiction. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English 9783110754124 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 9783110753899 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110780406 print 9781474475969 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474475983 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474475983 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474475983/original |
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Bailey, James, Bailey, James, Muriel Spark's Early Fiction : Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Desegregation of Spark -- 1. ‘Author’s Ghosts’: Manifestations of the Supernatural in Spark’s Early Fiction -- 2. ‘The role in which you’ve cast me’: Reassessing the Myth of Spark -- 3. ‘Drama[s] of exact observation’: Spark and the Nouveau Roman -- 4. ‘A study, in a way, of self-destruction’: The Driver’s Seat and the Impotent Gaze -- Conclusion: Leaving the Hothouse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Desegregation of Spark -- 1. ‘Author’s Ghosts’: Manifestations of the Supernatural in Spark’s Early Fiction -- 2. ‘The role in which you’ve cast me’: Reassessing the Myth of Spark -- 3. ‘Drama[s] of exact observation’: Spark and the Nouveau Roman -- 4. ‘A study, in a way, of self-destruction’: The Driver’s Seat and the Impotent Gaze -- Conclusion: Leaving the Hothouse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Desegregation of Spark -- 1. ‘Author’s Ghosts’: Manifestations of the Supernatural in Spark’s Early Fiction -- 2. ‘The role in which you’ve cast me’: Reassessing the Myth of Spark -- 3. ‘Drama[s] of exact observation’: Spark and the Nouveau Roman -- 4. ‘A study, in a way, of self-destruction’: The Driver’s Seat and the Impotent Gaze -- Conclusion: Leaving the Hothouse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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