Contemporary British women writers : narrative strategies /

Contemporary British women writers : narrative strategies / edited by Robert E. Hosmer, Jr.

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, Murie...

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Other Authors: Hosmer, Robert E., Jr.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Subjects:
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Sybille Bedford : a paradise of dainty devices / Robert Owen Evans
  • Paradigm and passage : the fiction of Anita Brookner / Robert E. Hosmer Jr.
  • 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 Hymes
  • 'See me as Sisyphus, but having a good time' : the fiction of Fay Weldon / Jenny Newman.

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