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Book SynopsisThis stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. -- .
Trade ReviewIt is the great merit of this volume that this ideal of scholarship is embodied in a slim, well-written book on one of Britain’s most prolific and interesting writers. Alfer and Edwards de Campos thus succeed in presenting a study that is accessible to the heterogeneous audience they address and which includes researchers, undergraduates, postgraduates and “general enthusiasts” (dust jacket) alike. This is no mean feat, especially when it comes to a complex and often difficult writer like A.S. Byatt.'
Sarah Heinz, Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, 01/03/2012
'(A.S. Byatt) is an important contribution to the growing body of critical work on this central figure in contemporary British fiction.'
Years Work in English Studies, vol 91, no 1, 2012
'A.S.Byatt: Critical Storytelling goes far beyond the scope of an introductory reader as it exhaustively surveys the substantial critical literature on Byatt, and does an impressive job of contextualizing the novels in the wider critical and cultural sphere of twentieth and twenty-first-century Britain.'
Sylvia Karastathi, ZAA Redaktion, 60.4 (2012)
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Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Fathers, Sisters and the Anxiety of Influence: The Shadow of the Sun and The Game 2. Writing the Contemporary: The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life 3. Two Cultures: Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman 4. Tradition and Transformation: Possession and Fairy Tales 5. The Dark Side of the Tale: The Children’s Book, The Biographer’s Tale and Angels and Insects Critical Storytelling: Peopling the Paper House Bibliography
