Theorising Muriel Spark

Gender, Race, Deconstruction

By: M. McQuillan

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Hardcover | 12 February 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Theorizing Muriel Spark is the first serious attempt to engage the writing of Muriel Spark in a sustained theoretical reading. It has a particular emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, postcolonial and deconstructive reading strategies. Drawing together a range of significant names in the field of contemporary literature and critical theory (including Judith Roof, Susan Sellers, Bryan Cheyette, Patricia Duncker, Nicholas Royle, Willy Maley, Julian Wolfreys, and Helene Cixous) this collection of essays deals with the full range of Spark's literary output. It concludes with a new interview with Muriel Spark.

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'...these diverse and engaging essays offer much-needed depth and substance to Spark criticism...Highly recommended...' - S.Pathak, Choice

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. viii
Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: 'I Don't Know Anything about Freud': Muriel Spark Meets Contemporary Criticism	p. 1
Gender
Tales of Love: Narcissism and Idealization in The Public Image	p. 35
The Future Perfect's Perfect Future: Spark's and Duras's Narrative Drive	p. 49
The Suggestive Spectacle: Queer Passions in Bronte's Villette and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	p. 67
In Bed with Muriel Spark: Mourning, Metonymy and Autobiography	p. 78
Race
Writing against Conversion: Muriel Spark the Gentile Jewess	p. 95
Muriel Spark Shot in Africa	p. 113
A Bit of the Other: Symposium, Futility and Scotland	p. 127
Deconstruction
Muriel Spark's Uselessness	p. 141
Muriel Spark's Mary Shelley: A Gothic and Liminal Life	p. 155
Not to Deconstruct? Righting and Deference in Not to Disturb	p. 170
Memento Mori	p. 189
Grimacing Catholicism: Muriel Spark's Macabre Farce and Muriel Spark's Latest Novel: The Public Image	p. 204
'The Same Informed Air': An Interview with Muriel Spark	p. 210
A Muriel Spark Bibliography	p. 230
Index	p. 242
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