Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A.s. Byatt - Knitting the Net of Culture

Zusatztext 'Steveker's monograph combines a brilliant capacity for minute descriptions of highly complex theories with a talent for sophisticated criticism.' - ZAA '...aptly captures Byatt's unique blend of energentic storytelling and astute intellectualism! and with it the essentially hermeneutic model of the reading and writing imagination that informs much! perhaps all of Byatt's writerly output.' - English Studies Informationen zum Autor LENA STEVEKER holds a PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and teaches British Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University, Germany. She has published articles on contemporary British literature and early modern drama. Her current book project is a co-edited collection of critical essays on the Harry Potter novels. Klappentext This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels, showing them to be deeply rooted in British literary history and cultural memory. Zusammenfassung This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity! cultural memory! and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels! showing them to be deeply rooted in British literary history and cultural memory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: IDENTITY  Concepts of Identity in Possession and The Biographer's Tale Self and Other in Possession and The Biographer's Tale Concepts of Identity in A.S. Byatt's Tetralogy The Gendered Self 60 Female Autonomy 75 Reconciling Body and Mind: the 'Thinking Woman' PART II: IDENTITY – CULTURAL MEMORY – LITERATURE  Identity and Memory Figures of Memory: Elizabeth I and Shakespeare Cultural Texts: Identity and Literature Imaginary Museums: Intertextuality and Cultural Memory Memorial Novels: the English Renaissance and the Victorian Age Mnemonic Spaces: Identity and Genre Conclusion Notes and References Bibliography Index...

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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: IDENTITY Concepts of Identity in Possession and The Biographer's Tale Self and Other in Possession and The Biographer's Tale Concepts of Identity in A.S. Byatt's Tetralogy The Gendered Self 60 Female Autonomy 75 Reconciling Body and Mind: the 'Thinking Woman' PART II: IDENTITY - CULTURAL MEMORY - LITERATURE Identity and Memory Figures of Memory: Elizabeth I and Shakespeare Cultural Texts: Identity and Literature Imaginary Museums: Intertextuality and Cultural Memory Memorial Novels: the English Renaissance and the Victorian Age Mnemonic Spaces: Identity and Genre Conclusion Notes and References Bibliography Index

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'Steveker's monograph combines a brilliant capacity for minute descriptions of highly complex theories with a talent for sophisticated criticism.' - ZAA
'...aptly captures Byatt's unique blend of energentic storytelling and astute intellectualism, and with it the essentially hermeneutic model of the reading and writing imagination that informs much, perhaps all of Byatt's writerly output.' - English Studies

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• Authors: Dr. Lena Steveker, L Steveker, L. Steveker, Lena Steveker, STEVEKER LENA
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780230575332
• ISBN: 978-0-230-57533-2
• No. of pages: 199
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection