02911nam 2200541Ia 450 991080897530332120200520144314.01-282-74971-497866127497110-7486-3770-210.1515/9780748637706(CKB)2670000000044573(EBL)581384(OCoLC)664802900(MiAaPQ)EBC581384(DE-B1597)616649(DE-B1597)9780748637706(EXLCZ)99267000000004457320090515d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Edinburgh companion to Muriel Spark /edited by Michael Gardiner, Willy Maley1st ed.Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press20101 online resource (161 p.)Edinburgh companions to Scottish literatureDescription based upon print version of record.0-7486-3769-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Copyright; 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 WritingCHAPTER TEN Muriel Spark's Crimes of WitEndnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; IndexThis 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 alongEdinburgh companions to Scottish literature.Women and literatureScotlandHistory19th centuryWomen and literatureHistory823.914Gardiner Michael1970-803437Maley Willy620005MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808975303321The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark3923820UNINA