A. S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination - Couverture rigide

Campbell, Jane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 088920439X ISBN 13 : 9780889204393

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004

Synopsis

A.S. Byatt's novel Possession: A Romance attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning both the Booker Prize and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. In her long and eminent career, Byatt has steadily published both fiction and non-fiction, the latest of which has not, until now, been given full critical consideration. Enter Jane Campbell's new book, A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination, a comprehensive critical reading of Byatt's fiction from The Shadow of the Sun and The Game, published in the 1960s, to A Whistling Woman (2002). The book begins with an overview of Byatt's writing and, drawing on her interviews and essays, sets forth the critical principles that inform the novelist's work. Following this introduction, a chronologically structured account of the novels and short stories traces Byatt's literary development. As well as exploring the ways in which Byatt has successfully negotiated a path between twentieth-century realism and postmodern experiment, Campbell employs a critical perspective appropriate to the author's individualistic feminist stance, stressing the breadth of Byatt's intellectual concerns and her insistence on placing her female characters in a living, changing context of ideas and experience, especially in their search for creative voice.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jane Campbell is professor emerita of English at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and a specialist in Romantic literature. She taught from 1961 until her retirement in 1999, and in 1986, she was the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award. She is the author [http:www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Catalog/campbell.shtml A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination] (WLU Press, 2004).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 088920439X
• ISBN 13: 9780889204393
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible