While most readers enjoyed, or at least admired A.S. Byatt’s Booker prize-winning novel “Possession”, many are puzzled by her work before and since. This essay argues that the problem is not the novels themselves, but rather the way that readers approach them. Conventional reading practices for experimental or postmodern fiction do not enable the reader to understand and enjoy her dense, dizzying work. By examining the intertexts in her novella “Morpho Eugenia,” in particular two imaginary texts written by the protagonist William Adamson, this essay demonstrates how the novella generates a different kind of reading practice. Using Byatt’s metaphor, the essay recommends that readers become “perpetual travelers,” a global model of readership ...
This study investigates the relation between faith in a transcendent reality and faith in language,...
A. S. Byatt’s novel Possession (1990) revolves around questions of writing the past, more particular...
At the centre of nearly every A. S. Byatt novel is another text, often Victorian in origin, the pres...
While most readers enjoyed, or at least admired A.S. Byatt’s Booker prize-winning novel Possession, ...
International audiencePossession: A Romance is a novel that now holds an overwhelming position in li...
[Extrato] Ventriloquism, liminality, laminations, collage, and connections are expressions frequent...
International audiencePossession: A Romance is a novel that now holds an overwhelming position in li...
This thesis examines the novels of Christine Brooke-Rose and A. S. Byatt in order to question the ex...
With the publication of A Whistling Woman in 2002, A.S. Byatt completed the sequence of her quartet,...
1A.S. Byatt's “Morpho Eugenia” (1992) marks a significant moment in the consideration of (narrative)...
A. S. Byatt is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary writers. This new study...
Opętanie by Antonia Susan Byatt, awarded the Booker Prize in 1990, has been analysed in the context ...
International audienceA.S. Byatt’s fiction may be perceived as intellectual, wordy and complex becau...
Right from her first novels, A. S. Byatt’s fiction is pervaded by scientific knowledge, derived from...
Book synopsis: The new millennium has been a period of rapid change and under this stimulus British ...
This study investigates the relation between faith in a transcendent reality and faith in language,...
A. S. Byatt’s novel Possession (1990) revolves around questions of writing the past, more particular...
At the centre of nearly every A. S. Byatt novel is another text, often Victorian in origin, the pres...
While most readers enjoyed, or at least admired A.S. Byatt’s Booker prize-winning novel Possession, ...
International audiencePossession: A Romance is a novel that now holds an overwhelming position in li...
[Extrato] Ventriloquism, liminality, laminations, collage, and connections are expressions frequent...
International audiencePossession: A Romance is a novel that now holds an overwhelming position in li...
This thesis examines the novels of Christine Brooke-Rose and A. S. Byatt in order to question the ex...
With the publication of A Whistling Woman in 2002, A.S. Byatt completed the sequence of her quartet,...
1A.S. Byatt's “Morpho Eugenia” (1992) marks a significant moment in the consideration of (narrative)...
A. S. Byatt is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary writers. This new study...
Opętanie by Antonia Susan Byatt, awarded the Booker Prize in 1990, has been analysed in the context ...
International audienceA.S. Byatt’s fiction may be perceived as intellectual, wordy and complex becau...
Right from her first novels, A. S. Byatt’s fiction is pervaded by scientific knowledge, derived from...
Book synopsis: The new millennium has been a period of rapid change and under this stimulus British ...
This study investigates the relation between faith in a transcendent reality and faith in language,...
A. S. Byatt’s novel Possession (1990) revolves around questions of writing the past, more particular...
At the centre of nearly every A. S. Byatt novel is another text, often Victorian in origin, the pres...