Muriel Spark : twenty-first-century perspectives

Muriel Spark : twenty-first-century perspectives / edited by David Herman.

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 Pri...

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Other Authors: Herman, David, 1962- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Series:Modern fiction studies book.
Subjects:
Spark, Muriel > Criticism and interpretation.
Spark, Muriel.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I SPARK AS SCOTTISH AND WORLD AUTHOR
  • ch. 1 "Fully to Savour Her Position": Muriel Spark and Scottish Identity / Gerard Carruthers
  • ch. 2 "The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World": Muriel Spark and the New Yorker / Lisa Harrison
  • pt. II SITUATING SPARK IN POSTWAR CULTURE
  • ch. 3 Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and Psychosis / Patricia Waugh
  • ch. 4 Muriel Spark and the Meaning of Treason / Marina MacKay
  • ch. 5 Reading Spark in the Age of Suspicion / Bran Nicol
  • ch. 6 Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the Object / Hope Howell Hodgkins
  • pt. III READING SPARK
  • ch. 7 Mandelbaum Gate: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic Gag / John Glavin
  • ch. 8 "Her Lips Are Slightly Parted": The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat / Jonathan Kemp
  • ch. 9 "Look for One Thing and You Find Another": The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's Memento Mori / Allan Pero
  • ch. 10 Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with Intent / Lewis MacLeod.

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