Muriel Spark's Early Fiction : : Literary Subversion and Experiments with Form /

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,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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