Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
David Herman
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Description for Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
Paperback. A resource for students and scholars alike, this volume provides information about Spark's oeuvre while featuring current, theoretically informed interpretations of individual texts. Editor(s): Herman, David. Series: A Modern Fiction Studies Book. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Dame Muriel Spark-the highly acclaimed Scottish writer-published over twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death in 2006. Two of her novels, The Public Image and Loitering with Intent, were short-listed for the Booker Prize, and another, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. David Herman here assembles an international group of scholars to contexualize and analyze Spark's works, highlighting the continuing relevance of her texts in the twenty-first century. With three new essays and a reworked introduction by the editor, this ... Read more
Dame Muriel Spark-the highly acclaimed Scottish writer-published over twenty novels and more than a dozen short-story collections from the late 1950s until her death in 2006. Two of her novels, The Public Image and Loitering with Intent, were short-listed for the Booker Prize, and another, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. David Herman here assembles an international group of scholars to contexualize and analyze Spark's works, highlighting the continuing relevance of her texts in the twenty-first century. With three new essays and a reworked introduction by the editor, this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
A Modern Fiction Studies Book
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801895548
SKU
V9780801895548
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About David Herman
David Herman is a professor of English at the Ohio State University. He has published widely on narrative theory, modern and postmodern fiction, and storytelling across media.
Reviews for Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
"A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years." - Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh"