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Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morriso
Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morriso
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The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and a revered psychoanalyst team up to share their insights on six of their favorite novels.
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, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot'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 lives. Imagining Characters is indispensable, a work of criticism that returns us to the books it discusses with renewed respect and wonder.
Author: A. S. Byatt,Ignes Sodre
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/02/1997
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.24w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780679777533
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/04/1997 pg. 56
New York Times 09/14/1997 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/1997 pg. 1078
Booklist 09/15/1997 pg. 197
Library Journal 10/01/1997 pg. 81
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, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot'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 lives. Imagining Characters is indispensable, a work of criticism that returns us to the books it discusses with renewed respect and wonder.
Author: A. S. Byatt,Ignes Sodre
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/02/1997
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.24w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780679777533
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/04/1997 pg. 56
New York Times 09/14/1997 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/1997 pg. 1078
Booklist 09/15/1997 pg. 197
Library Journal 10/01/1997 pg. 81
About the Author
A. S. Byatt was the author of numerous novels, including The Children's Book, The Biographer's Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She also wrote two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects, five collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic and author, and the recipient of the 2016 Erasmus Prize for her "inspiring contribution to 'life writing, '" she died in 2023.
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