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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Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Modern fiction studies book.
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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.