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A. S. Byatt: On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays A. S. Byatt: On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays A. S. Byatt: On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays

In ​these seven essays, the British novelist Byatt examines many themes: the historical novel as created by 20th-century English writers, the relations between scholarship and the creation of fiction, the modern European novel and its debt to mythology, and how fairy tales have influenced her and other modern authors. The three chapters on serious historical literature are from the 1999 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature that she gave at Emory University, while the section on the European novel is an expanded version of Byatt's Finzi-Contini lecture given at Yale in 1999. For Byatt fans, the best essay is „True Stories and the Facts in Fiction,” which outlines how scholarly serendipity inspired her novellas Angels and Insects. Plot summaries and extensive quotations from the selected texts will give readers an appetite to read the many novels discussed in these pieces, though the general reader may feel overwhelmed by the virtuosity of Byatt's complex insights and… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2000

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Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002
208 oldal · ISBN: 9780674008335
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Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001
208 oldal · ISBN: 9780674004511

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A. S. Byatt: On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays

Ez volt az első alkalom, hogy ehhez hasonló esszégyűjteményt olvastam, de nagyon élveztem. Azt hiszem, jobban bele kéne ásnom magam Byatt varázslatos világába, hiszen telis-tele van mesékkel, mítoszokkal, legendákkal és még valamivel, amit még nem tudtam pontosan megfogalmazni, de nagyon tetszik.
Kezdetnek azt hiszem, be kéne szereznem egy példányt ebből a kis esszéskötetből.


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Both Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie in Britain in the 1970s said that they felt their energy derived more from reading tales than from reading novels, and used tales, old, invented and reinvented, to charm, to entice and to galvanise their readers in turn.

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