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Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt

Knitting the Net of Culture

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  • © 2009

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  1. Lena Steveker
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Lena Steveker
      Pages 1-6

  4. Identity — Cultural Memory — Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Identity and Memory

      • Lena Steveker
      Pages 77-86

    3. Figures of Memory: Elizabeth I and Shakespeare

      • Lena Steveker
      Pages 87-94

    4. Cultural Texts: Identity and Literature

      • Lena Steveker
      Pages 95-103

    5. Imaginary Museums: Intertextuality and Cultural Memory

      • Lena Steveker
      Pages 104-115

    6. Memorial Novels: the English Renaissance and the Victorian Age

      • Lena Steveker
      Pages 116-125

    7. Mnemonic Spaces: Identity and Genre

      • Lena Steveker
      Pages 126-134

    8. Conclusion

      • Lena Steveker
      Pages 135-143

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 144-190
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About this book

This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels, showing them to be deeply rooted in British literary history and cultural memory.

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'Steveker's monograph combines a brilliant capacity for minute descriptions of highly complex theories with a talent for sophisticated criticism.' - ZAA

'...aptly captures Byatt's unique blend of energentic storytelling and astute intellectualism, and with it the essentially hermeneutic model of the reading and writing imagination that informs much, perhaps all of Byatt's writerly output.' - English Studies

About the author

LENA STEVEKER holds a PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and teaches British Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University, Germany. She has published articles on contemporary British literature and early modern drama. Her current book project is a co-edited collection of critical essays on the Harry Potter novels.

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