Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt

Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt
ISBN-10
1527590747
ISBN-13
9781527590748
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
144
Language
English
Published
2023-01-19
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Author
Alexandra Cheira

Description

This volume provides sustained critical attention on Byatt’s wonder tales, both the stand-alone tales and those which are embedded in the wider frame of a novel or novella. In this light, it examines Byatt’s claim that her wonder tales “are modern literary stories and they do play quite consciously with a postmodern creation and recreation of old forms” through a revisitation of the wonder tale in a productive dialogue with tradition as an expanded recognition of this fertile creative-critical dialogue with regards to the significance of the wonder tale in Byatt’s fictional work. The book evinces a fresh variety of conceptions and approaches to Byatt’s wonder tales, some spanning several tales and others focussing on a specific wonder tale, all thoroughly observant of the nature and workings of the relationship between story or novel and genre or tale, and theoretically informed by innovative critical approaches.

Similar books