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The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark / Michael Gardiner, Willy Maley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSLPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748637683
  • 9780748637706
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.914 22
LOC classification:
  • PR6037.P29 Z65 2010eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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
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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

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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

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