{"product_id":"as-byatt-and-the-heliotropic-imagination-9781554582518","title":"A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eA.S. Byatt’s novel \u003ci\u003ePossession: A Romance\u003c\/i\u003e attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning both the Booker Prize and the Irish Times\/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. In her long and eminent career, Byatt has steadily published both fiction and non-fiction, the latest of which has not, until now, been given full critical consideration. \u003cbr\u003e  Enter Jane Campbell’s new book, \u003ci\u003eA.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, a comprehensive critical reading of Byatt’s fiction from \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Game\u003c\/i\u003e, published in the 1960s, to \u003ci\u003eA Whistling Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). \u003cbr\u003e  The book begins with an overview of Byatt’s writing and, drawing on her interviews and essays, sets forth the critical principles that inform the novelist’s work. Following this introduction, a chronologically structured account of the novels and short stories traces Byatt’s literary development. \u003cbr\u003e  As well as exploring the ways in which Byatt has successfully negotiated a path between twentieth-century realism and postmodern experiment, Campbell employs a critical perspective appropriate to the author’s individualistic feminist stance, stressing the breadth of Byatt’s intellectual concerns and her insistence on placing her female characters in a living, changing context of ideas and experience, especially in their search for creative voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jane Campbell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48291438657787,"sku":"9781554582518","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781554582518.jpg?v=1772484776","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/as-byatt-and-the-heliotropic-imagination-9781554582518","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}