The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Series Editors’ Preface
Brief Biography of Muriel Spark
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE Muriel Spark and the Problems of Biography
CHAPTER TWO Poetic Perception in the Fiction of Muriel Spark
CHAPTER THREE Body and State in Spark’s Early Fiction
CHAPTER FOUR The Stranger Spark
CHAPTER FIVE Muriel Spark and the Politics of the Contemporary
CHAPTER SIX Spark, Modernism and Postmodernism
CHAPTER SEVEN Muriel Spark as Catholic Novelist
CHAPTER EIGHT Muriel Spark’s Break with Romanticism
CHAPTER NINE The Postwar Contexts of Spark’s Writing
CHAPTER TEN Muriel Spark’s Crimes of Wit
Endnotes
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index

Beteiligte: Gardiner, Michael [VerfasserIn]; Carruthers, Gerard [MitwirkendeR]; Gardiner, Michael [MitwirkendeR]; Goldie, David [MitwirkendeR]; Kolocotroni, Vassiliki [MitwirkendeR]; Lyons, Paddy [MitwirkendeR]; Maley, Willy [VerfasserIn]; Maley, Willy [MitwirkendeR]; Milne, Drew [MitwirkendeR]; Piette, Adam [MitwirkendeR]; Reizbaum, Marilyn [MitwirkendeR]; Stevenson, Randall [MitwirkendeR]; Wickman, Matthew [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (160 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780748637706

ISBN: 9780748637706

Identifikator:

Schlagwörter: Literary Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Entstehung:

Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: 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 Bröntes, 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 FeaturesA collection of original, specially commissioned chapters by leading experts in the fieldCovers the whole spectrum of Spark's workAddresses the key issues and themes in Spark's work without losing sight of the questions of form and contentProvides original insights into the contexts of Spark's work as viewed through literary theory

Zugangsstatus: Eingeschränkter Zugang | Informationen zu lizenzierten elektronischen Ressourcen der SLUB

Nur in Feld suchen:

Zuletzt gesuchte Begriffe: