Muriel Spark

Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

AvDavid Herman,David (Ohio State University) Herman

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Dame Muriel Spark-the highly acclaimed Scottish writer-published over twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death in 2006. Two of her novels, The Public Image and Loitering with Intent, were short-listed for the Booker Prize, and another, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. David Herman here assembles an international group of scholars to contexualize and analyze Spark's works, highlighting the continuing relevance of her texts in the twenty-first century. With three new essays and a reworked introduction by the editor, this volume expands a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies dedicated to Spark and her writings. Organized thematically into three parts, the volume includes essays that consider Spark as both Scottish and world author, situate Spark in the broader contexts of postwar culture, and offer exemplary readings of specific works from various critical perspectives. A resource for students and scholars alike, this volume provides information about Spark's oeuvre while also featuring current, theoretically informed interpretations of individual texts.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-07-27
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieA Modern Fiction Studies Book
Antal sidor256
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801895531

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PrefaceIntroduction Part I: Spark as Scottish and World AuthorChapter 1. "Fully to Savour Her Position": Muriel Spark and Scottish IdentityChapter 2. "The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World": Muriel Spark and the New YorkerPart II: Situating Spark in Postwar CultureChapter 3. Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and PsychosisChapter 4. Muriel Spark and the Meaning of TreasonChapter 5. Reading Spark in the Age of SuspicionChapter 6. Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the ObjectPart III: Reading SparkChapter 7. The Mandelbaum Gate: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic GagChapter 8. "Her Lips Are Slightly Parted": The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's The Driver's SeatChapter 9. "Look for One Thing and You Find Another": The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's Memento MoriChapter 10. Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with IntentAppendix: A Bibliography of Recent Criticism on Muriel SparkContributorsIndex

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