A.s.byatt: Art, Authorship, Creativity - Art, Authorship and Creativity

Informationen zum Autor CHRISTINE FRANKEN is a lecturer in the Department of English at the Free University of Amsterdam specialising in Modernism, gender studies, and aspects of self-representation in literature and the visual arts. Klappentext This book considers the work of the novelist and critic A.S. Byatt in the context of contemporary debates about art! authorship! creativity and gender. A.S. Byatt emerges as an author who presents us with fascinating and ambivalent portraits of writers and who uses metaphors of creativity in original ways. Zusammenfassung This book considers the work of the novelist and critic A.S. Byatt in the context of contemporary debates about art! authorship! creativity and gender. A.S. Byatt emerges as an author who presents us with fascinating and ambivalent portraits of writers and who uses metaphors of creativity in original ways. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements The Turtle and Its Adversaries: Polyvocality in A.S. Byatt's Critical and Academic Work The Shadow of the Sun : The Lady of Shalott or the Writer as Genius The Game : Cassandra or the Writer as Proto-Feminist Visionary Possession : Melusine or the Writer as Serpent Woman Art Made Me: Conclusion Notes Bringing Language and Thought to Life Select Bibliography Index

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgements The Turtle and Its Adversaries: Polyvocality in A.S. Byatt's Critical and Academic Work The Shadow of the Sun : The Lady of Shalott or the Writer as Genius The Game : Cassandra or the Writer as Proto-Feminist Visionary Possession : Melusine or the Writer as Serpent Woman Art Made Me: Conclusion Notes Bringing Language and Thought to Life Select Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: C Franken, C. Franken, Christine Franken
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349420926
• ISBN: 978-1-349-42092-6
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection