Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli Ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and T Paperback - 1997
by A. S. Byatt; Ignes Sodre
The bestselling author of "Possession" pairs her searching intelligence with the insights of psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre in a free-wheeling and exhilarating discussion of one novel each by six women writers--Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison. The result reveals how literature engages and nourishes the reader.
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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, 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.
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- Title Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli Ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and T
- Author A. S. Byatt; Ignes Sodre
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Book
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-09-02
- ISBN 9780679777533 / 0679777539
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.24 x 0.68 in (20.35 x 13.31 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Characters and characteristics in literature, English fiction - Women authors - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97006671
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.009
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/15/1997, Page 197
- Kirkus Reviews, 07/15/1997, Page 1078
- Library Journal, 10/01/1997, Page 81
- New York Times, 09/14/1997, Page 27
- Publishers Weekly, 08/04/1997, Page 56
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