A.S. Byatt
By: Kathleen Coyne Kelly.
Series: Twayne's world authors series online
Publisher: G. K. Hall & Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Byatt, A. S. -- 1936- -- Criticism and interpretation -- Databases
Description: Kathleen Coyne Kelly has written the first full-length study of Byatt's oeuvre. Kelly shows how the early novels, along with Byatt's better-known recent work, illustrate the degree to which Byatt is at home with both the conventions of realism and the challenges of postmodernism. In all of her fiction, Byatt combines a passion for intellectual analysis with rich plotting and vivid characterization; increasingly, she is being recognized as one of the great British novelists of the late twentieth century.

. Throughout her novels and short stories, Byatt weaves a complex and erudite web of literary allusion and philosophical reflection. Kelly's study helps to make Byatt's work more accessible to students; at the same time, Kelly is able to engage the more sophisticated reader. A.S. Byatt is an elegant and informative introduction to an outstanding contemporary British author.
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Originally published in print, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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