Imagining characters
six conversations about women writers
by A. S. Byatt and Ignes Sodre
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In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Charlotte Bronte's Villette, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. The results are nothing less than an education in the ways literature grips its readers and at times, transforms their very lives.
Whether they are examining the bewildering passivity of Jane Austen's heroines, exploring Willa Cather's code of solitude, or reading Toni Morrison's Beloved as a novel about spite, Byatt and Sodre are witty, humane, funny, and profound. For anyone who loves Byatt's novels, for anyone who loves literature, Imagining Characters is indispensable, a work of criticism that returns us to the books it discusses with renewed respect and wonder.
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Psychoanalysis and literature, Interviews, History and criticism, Women authors, Women and literature, English fiction, American fiction, Characters and characteristics in literature, English fiction, women authors, American fiction, women authors, American fiction, history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, Interviewsbyatt, a. s. (antonia susan) , 1936-, Interviewssodré, ignês, Criticism and interpretationausten, jane , 1775-1817, Criticism and interpretationbrontë, charlotte , 1816-1855, Criticism and interpretationeliot, george , 1819-1880, Criticism and interpretationcather, willa , 1873-1947, Criticism and interpretationmurdoch, iris, Criticism and interpretationmorrison, toni, English fiction--women authors--history and criticism, American fiction--women authors--history and criticism, Women and literature--great britain, Women and literature--united states, Psychoanalysis and literature--english-speaking countries, Women and literature--english-speaking countries, Pr830.w6 b93 1997, 823.009/9287, English Women authors, American Women authors, English literature, American literaturePeople
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Imagining Characters
June 7, 1999, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover
in English
0517452472 9780517452479
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Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlo
September 1997, Tandem Library
Unknown Binding
in English
1417719486 9781417719488
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Imagining characters: conversations about women writers : Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison
1997, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
0679777539 9780679777533
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Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers
1996-01-01, Vintage
0099591219 9780099591214
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Imagining characters: six conversations about women writers
1995, Chatto and Windus
in English
0701165006 9780701165000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-263) and index.
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