Identity and cultural memory in the fiction of A.S. Byatt
Subtitle: knitting the net of culture
By: Lena Steveker.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230575332
Subjects: Byatt, A. S. -- 1936- -- Criticism and interpertation; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Collective memory in literature
Description: "This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels, showing them to be deeply rooted in British literary history and cultural memory"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPART I: IDENTITY Concepts of Identity in Possession and The Biographers TaleSelf and Other in Possession and The Biographers TaleConcepts of Identity in A.S. Byatts TetralogyThe Gendered Self 60Female Autonomy 75Reconciling Body and Mind: the 'Thinking Woman'PART II: IDENTITY CULTURAL MEMORY LITERATURE Identity and MemoryFigures of Memory: Elizabeth I and ShakespeareCultural Texts: Identity and LiteratureImaginary Museums: Intertextuality and Cultural MemoryMemorial Novels: the English Renaissance and the Victorian AgeMnemonic Spaces: Identity and GenreConclusionNotes and ReferencesBibliographyIndex.