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

The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark
  • Contains: 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
  • Contributor: Gardiner, Michael [Author]; Carruthers, Gerard [Contributor]; Gardiner, Michael [Contributor]; Goldie, David [Contributor]; Kolocotroni, Vassiliki [Contributor]; Lyons, Paddy [Contributor]; Maley, Willy [Author]; Maley, Willy [Contributor]; Milne, Drew [Contributor]; Piette, Adam [Contributor]; Reizbaum, Marilyn [Contributor]; Stevenson, Randall [Contributor]; Wickman, Matthew [Contributor]
  • Published: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
  • Published in: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature ; ECSL
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (160 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780748637706
  • ISBN: 9780748637706
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: Literary Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: 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
  • Access State: Restricted Access | Information to licenced electronic resources of the SLUB