Items related to Contemporary British Women Writers: Narrative Strategies
Synopsis
A collection of ten scholarly essays, each devoted to one of the following novelists: Sybille Bedford, Anita Brookner, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Isabel Colegate, Penelope Fitzgerald, Susan Hill, Molly Keane, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. Each essay focuses on several novels, selected to reveal the novelist's consistent concerns and characteristic strategies, and each concludes with primary and secondary bibliographies. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0312074808
- ISBN 13 9780312074807
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages214
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Contemporary British Women Writers: Narrative Strategies
Published by
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0312074808
ISBN 13: 9780312074807
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: USED_GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. An ex-library copy in black hard covers lettered in gold, with the usual ex-libris markings. The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and there is little wear to the covers. No dust jacket. Book. Seller Inventory # 058690
Quantity: 1 available
Seller Image
Contemporary British Women Writers: Narrative Strategies
Published by
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0312074808
ISBN 13: 9780312074807
Used
Hardcover
Seller: killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Ireland
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover, xii + 214 pages. A college library withdrawal with an external stamp on all outer page edges and internal library markings (stamps and pencil inventory numbers; a cancelled barcode label and remnants of a partially removed label on last blank endpaper). Interior shows mild creasing (not affecting corners), limited faint offset marks, else in attractive, very good condition: clean, bright, untanned, with unmarked text and firm binding. External scuff-marks to board edges. Dust jacket shows creasing to the lower front and lower rear panels, an inventory label on lower spine, dusty marks; permanently affixed to boards and fitted with a protective mylar cover by the library (mylar cover looks moderately shelfworn). -- Contemporary British Women Writers is a collection of ten essays, each devoted to an important novelist and written by a distinguished scholar. Included in this volume are Sybille Bedford, Anita Brookner, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Isabel Colegate, Penelope Fitzgerald, Susan Hill, Molly Keane, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. Each essay focuses on several novels, selected to reveal the novelist's consistent concerns and characteristic strategies. Individual bibliographies provide a full sense of the novelist's work as well as a discriminating guide to the best critical work available. -- Contents: Sybille Bedford: A Paradise of Dainty Devices / Robert Owen Evans; Paradigm and Passage: The Fiction of Anita Brookner / Robert E. Hosmer; The Great Ventriloquist: A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance / Ann Hulbert; The Real Magic of Angela Carter / Walter Kendrick; The Strange Clarity of Distance: History, Myth, and Imagination in the Novels of Isabel Colegate / Brett T. Averitt; Magic or Miracles: The Fallen World of Penelope Fitzgerald¿s Novels / Jean Sudrann; Enclosed Structures, Disclosed Lives: The Fictions of Susan Hill / Ernest H. Hofer; Sex, Snobbery and the Strategies of Molly Keane / Clare Boylan; Muriel Spark and the Oxymoronic Vision / Joseph Hynes; 'See Me As Sisyphus, But Having A Good Time': The Fiction of Fay Weldon / Jenny Newman. Seller Inventory # 008570
Quantity: 1 available