Muriel Spark

Spark, Dame Muriel - 1918–, Scottish novelist. Her witty novels expose the petty foibles of her characters with merciless satire. Spark's Roman Catholicism (she converted in 1954) underlies her interest in revealing the dark, terrifying, evil, and unexplainable side of banal human experience. Spark's novels include The Comforters (1957), Memento Mori (1958), The Bachelors (1960), The Girls Read More...

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Muriel Spark: A Biographical and Critical Study
by Derek Stanford. 184 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Publishers' Foreword

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Muriel Spark: A Recollection

Poet

Short-Storyist

Novelist

Ventriloquist

Critic

Critic

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A History of Scottish Women's Writing (Chap. 35 "The Remarkable Fictions of Muriel Spark")
by Douglas Gifford, Dorothy McMillan. 720 pgs.

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The first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing, featuring writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark, and Liz Lochhead.

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Introduction: A History of Scottish Women's Writing

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1: The Gaelic Tradition Up to 1750

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2: Scottish Women Writers C.1560-C.1650

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3: Old Singing Women and the Canons of Scottish Balladry and Song

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4: Women and Song 1750-1850

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5: Selves and Others: Non-Fiction Writing in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

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6: Burns's Sister

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7: 'Kept Some Steps Behind Him': Women in Scotland 1780-1920

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8: Some Early Travellers

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9: From Here to Alterity: The Geography of Femininity in the Poetry of Joanna Baillie

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10: Some Women of the Nineteenth-Century Scottish Theatre: Joanna Baillie, Frances Wright and Helen Macgregor

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11: The Other Great Unknowns. Women Fiction Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century

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12: Rediscovering Scottish Women's Fiction in the Nineteenth Century

13: Elizabeth Grant

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14: Viragos of the Periodical Press: Constance Gordon-Cumming) Charlotte Dempster, Margaret Oliphant, Christian Isobel Johnstone

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15: Jane Welsh Carlyle's Private Writing Career

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16: Beyond 'The Empire of the Gentle Heart': Scottish Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

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17: What A Voice! Women, Repertoire and Loss in the Singing Tradition

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18: Margaret Oliphant

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19: Caught Between Worlds: The Fiction of Jane and Mary Findlater

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20: Scottish Women Writers Abroad: The Canadian Experience

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21: Women and Nation

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22: Annie S. Swan and O. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard

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23: Tales of Her Own Countries: Violet Jacob

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24: Fictions of Development 1920-1970

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25: Marion Angus and the Boundaries of Self

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26: Catherine Carswell: Open the Door!

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27: Willa Muir: Crossing the Genres

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28: 'To Know Being': Substance and Spirit in the Work of Nan Shepherd

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29: Twentieth-Century Poetry I: Rachel Annand Taylor to Veronica Forrest-Thomson

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30: More Than Merely Ourselves: Naomi Mitchison

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31: The Modern Historical Tradition

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32: Jane Duncan: The Homecoming of Imagination

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33: Jessie Kesson

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34: Scottish Women Dramatists Since 1945

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35: The Remarkable Fictions of Muriel Spark

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36: Vision and Space in Elspeth Davie's Fiction

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37: Designer Kailyard

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38: Twentieth-Century Poetry Ii: The Last Twenty-Five Years

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39: Contemporary Fiction I: Tradition and Continuity

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40: Contemporary Fiction Ii: Seven Writers in Scotland

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41: Contemporary Fiction III: The Anglo-Scots

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42: The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead

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43: Women's Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750

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Select Bibliographies of Scottish Women Writers

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The Scottish Novel since the Seventies: New Visions, Old Dreams (Chap. Three "The Deliberate Cunning of Muriel Spark")
by Gavin Wallace, Randall Stevenson. 256 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

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Part I Continuities

One Disruptions: the Later Fiction of Robin Jenkins

Two Bleeding from All That's Best: the Fiction of Iain Crichton Smith

Three: The Deliberate Cunning of Muriel Spark

Four Class and Being in the Novels of William Mcilvanney

Five Myths and Marvels

Part Ii Innovations

Six Tradition and Experiment in the Glasgow Novel

Seven :Resisting Arrest: James Kelman

Eight Innovation and Reaction in the Fiction of Alasdair Gray

Nine Iain Banks and the Fiction Factory

Ten: Of Myths and Men: Aspects of Gender in the Fiction of Janice Galloway

Part III New Readings

Eleven Divergent Scottishness: William Boyd, Allan Massie, Ronald Frame

Twelve: Listening to the Women Talk

Thirteen Gnawing the Mammoth: History, Class and Politics in the Modern Scottish and Welsh Novel

Fourteen Image and Text: Fiction on Film

Fifteen Voices in Empty Houses: The Novel of Damaged Identity

Sixteen the Scottish Novel Since 1970: A Bibliography

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Comedy and the Woman Writer: Woolf, Spark, and Feminism
by Judy Little. 224 pgs.

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1: Ritual as Revolution: Comedy and Women

2: Virginia Woolf: Myth and Manner in the Early Novels

3: The Politics of Holiday: Woolf's Later Novels

4: Muriel Spark: the Irrational Norm

5: Muriel Spark: Takeovers

6: Feminist Comedy

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Muriel Spark's Definition of Reality, in Critique
by Ann B. Dobie. 8 pgs.

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The Social Framework of Knowledge: Muriel Spark's 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,' in Mosaic (Winnipeg)
by Patrick J. Whiteley. 22 pgs.

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Muriel Spark and the Angel of the Body, in Critique
by Margaret Moan Rowe. 10 pgs.

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"The Latter End of Job": The Gift of Narrative in Muriel Spark's the Only Problem and the Comforters, in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
by Bryce Christensen. 12 pgs.

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Contemporary British Novelists ("Muriel Spark: The Surrealist Jane Austen" begins on p. 125)
by Charles Shapiro. 172 pgs.

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Preface

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Introduction

Kingsley Amis

Durrell's Dissonant Quartet

The Elements of William Golding

Doris Lessing: the Free Woman's Commitment

Iris Murdoch: Everybody Through the Looking- Glass

Widmerpool and "The Music of Time"

The Eccentricity of Alan Sillitoe

C. P. Snow: the Unreason of Reason

Muriel Spark: the Surrealist Jane Austen

Angus Wilson: the Territory Behind

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Contours of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Eighth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts ("The Element of the Fantastic and the Artist Figure in the Novels of Muriel Spark" begins on p. 149)
by Michele K. Langford, Marshall B. Tymn. 236 pgs.

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This collection of 22 essays originally presented at the Eighth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains 7 sections: "Fantasy and Discontinuity," "Theory of National Fantasy--Traditions and Invention," "Fantastic Vision in Children's Literature," "Science Fiction and Fantasy Films," "Fusion, Transfusion, and Transgression in the Fantastic," "The Fantastic and Science," and "The Fantastic World--Space and Time" that address the world of the imaginary, the dream, the uncanny, the paranormal, and all forms of speculative fiction.

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Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Introduction

I Fantasy and Discontinuity

Fatal Breaks

Epic Reversal in Mary Shelley's The Last Man: Romantic Irony and the Roots of Science Fiction

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From Reality to Fantasy: Displacement and Death in Albee's Zoo Story

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The Self, the Referent, and the Real in Science Fiction and the Fantastic: Lem, Pynchon, Kubin, and Delany

II Theory of National Fantasy-- Tradition and Invention

The British and American Traditions of Speculative Fiction

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Our Dual Existence": Archetypes of Love and Death in Le Fanu's "Carmilla

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The Panchronicon: A New Hampshire Yankee in Queen Elizabeth's Court

Techniques of the Fantastic in Two West African Novels

III Fantastic Vision in Children's Literature

Making the Dreamed Earth

Dorothy and Tarzan: Notes toward a Theory of National Fantasy

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The Glass around the Jewels: Baum's Ambivalent Vision

IV Science Fiction and Fantasy Films

Terminal Culture: Science Fiction Cinema in the Age of the Microchip

Natural Man, Unnatural Science: Rejection of Science in Recent Science Fiction and Fantasy Film

The Problem of Novelization: Dead and Buried and Nomads by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

V Fusion, Transfusion, and Transgression in the Fantastic

"My God, No!": The Varieties of Christian Horror Fiction

"They're Fusing Just the Way They Should": Fusion, Transfusion, and Their Negative Correlates in The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

The Element of the Fantastic and the Artist Figure in the Novels of Muriel Spark

VI The Fantastic and Science

Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Challenge of the Occult to Science, Reason, and Psychiatry

Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction: Shifting Paradigms for Science Fiction

VII The Fantastic World--Space and Time

The United States in Contemporary French Fiction: a Geography of the Fantastic

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Todorov among the Gothics: Structuring the Supernatural Moment

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Mommy Fortuna's Ontological Plenum: The Fantasy of Plenitude

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Muriel Spark, in Contemporary Review
by Geoffrey Heptonstall. 4 pgs.

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