Review
...these diverse and engaging essays offer much-needed depth and substance to Spark criticism...Highly recommended...
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Review
...these diverse and engaging essays offer much-needed depth and substance to Spark criticism...Highly recommended...
-Choice
Book Description
Drawing together a range of significant names in the field of contemporary literature and critical theory, this collection of essays deals with the full range of Spark's literary output. It has a particular emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, post-colonial, and deconstructive reading strategies. It concludes with a new interview with Muriel Spark
About the Author
Martin McQuillan is Lecturer in Cultural Theory and Analysis, University of Leed
Theorising Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction FROM THE PUBLISHER
Drawing together a range of significant names in the field of contemporary literature and critical theory, this collection of essays deals with the full range of Spark's literary output. It has a particular emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, post-colonial, and deconstructive reading strategies. It concludes with a new interview with Muriel Spark
SYNOPSIS
The first serious attempt to engage the writing of Muriel Spark in a sustained theoretical reading.