A.S. Byatt (Contemporary British Novelists)
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In the quartet, Stephanie and Frederica both attend Cambridge University at a time when female students were rare. So I am also interested in what goes on in the minds of readers, and writers, and characters and narrators in books. In the "Critical Perspective" section of this page, the author incorrectly identifies Henri of The Passion as a woman; critics usually read this character as male. Byatt has links to information about her books , appearances, essays written by Byatt including an introduction for Babel Tower , and an extensive bibliography of Byatt's work and secondary criticism on her work. Metaphor finally emerges as an integral part of representational language, the only way of describing human existence that is nevertheless essentially a matter of flesh and blood. In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim.
The Virgin in the Garden centres on Alexander's play about Elizabeth I the performance of which coincides with the coronation of Elizabeth II , and Still Life explores representations of reality in art and literature, with a particular focus on the work of Vincent Van Gogh. There is also a wealth of intellectual and philosophical thought: Babel Tower examines linguistic theories through Alexander's study of different teaching methods, while A Whistling Woman incorporates complex debates about the nature of the mind, body and spirit.
In the middle of writing her quartet, Byatt wrote another novel, Possession , which turned out to be her most successful. It not only won the Booker Prize for Fiction and high critical acclaim, but was also a great commercial success, marking the beginning of Byatt's wider appeal to the general reading public as well as the literary world. Possession is another ambitious novel, a spectacular intertextual literary web which combines explorations of Victorian literature and culture with a gripping detective story and love story.
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The ingenious plot enables Byatt to intertwine two stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively: As Michell and Bailey begin to uncover evidence of a previously unknown love affair between Ash and LaMotte, the historical story parallels their own developing relationship. This seemingly traditional love story is combined with fascinating layers of information about Victorian culture, including Darwinism and spiritualism, as well as many different narrative forms: Byatt includes the letters, diaries and other documents that form part of the research, as well as Ash's and LaMotte's poems and fairytales.
Byatt continues to write about the nineteenth century in Angels and Insects , which features two novellas, and The Biographer's Tale , a complex and labyrinthine novel which, through the story of another young academic, compares and contrasts the abstract nature of intellectual theories with the supposedly real and factual process of writing biographies, suggesting that 'factual reality' is not as straightforward as one might think, for perhaps everything is merely a complex interplay of subjective stories and ideas.
This comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's works of fiction up to and including. Results 1 - 10 of 11 A.S. Byatt. Critical storytelling. By Alexa Alfer. This comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers.
Byatt's next novel, The Children's Book , has almost equalled the success of Possession. The novel spans from the s until the end of World War I, and again the literary and intellectual themes are strong: Olive Wellwood, a children's writer who is inspired partly by Edith Nesbit, and her husband Humphrey are liberal-minded Fabians who live with their children in a large, sprawling country house, an unconventional home which opens its doors to a multitude of people. While the Wellwood children appear to have an idyllic life, their existence is revealed to be far from happy as the hypocrisy of the adults is exposed: The compelling story of the Wellwood family is intertwined with the social and political context of the world in which they live: Edwardian Britain is entering a new era in which the established social order is changing, the suffragette movement is gaining full force and World War I is approaching.
And, as always in Byatt's fiction, embedded within the realist elements are layers of literary allusion, hinting at the dark side of both fairytales and utopian visions: On another level, it is stuffed with the motifs of fairy stories: Novels are works of art which are made out of language, and are made in solitude by one person and read in solitude by one person - by many different, single people, it is to be hoped.
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So I am also interested in what goes on in the minds of readers, and writers, and characters and narrators in books. I like to write about people who think, to whom thinking is as important and exciting and painful as sex or eating. This doesn't mean I want my books to be cerebral or simply battles of ideas.
I love formal patterning in novels - I like to discover and make connections between all sorts of different people, things, ways of looking, points in time and space. But I also like the idea that novels can be, as James said, 'loose baggy monsters', a generous form that can take account of almost anything. Temperamentally, and morally, I like novels with large numbers of people and centres of consciousness, not novels that adopt a narrow single point-of-view, author's or character's.
I don't like novels that preach or proselytise. Fathers, Sisters and the Anxiety of Influence: The Shadow of the Sun and The Game 2. The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life 3. Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman 4. Possession and Fairy Tales 5.
The Dark Side of the Tale: Peopling the Paper House Bibliography. We would like to place cookies on your computer to improve your viewing experience and help us make this website better.