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BL
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714803
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b536955
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Lena Steveker.
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Identity and cultural memory in the fiction of A.S. Byatt : : knitting the net of culture\ Lena Steveker.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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(ix, 190 p.)
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0230248594
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: 9780230248595
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| Contents
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I. Identity --;Concepts of identity in Possession and The biographer's tale --;Self and other in Possession and The biographer's tale --;Concepts of identity in A.S. Byatt's tetraology --;The gendered self --;Female autonomy --;Reconciling body and mind : the 'thinking woman' --;II. Identiry --;cultural memory --;literature --;Identiry and memory --;Figures of memory : Elizabeth I and Shakespeare --;Cultural texts : identity and literature --;Imaginary museums : intertextuality and cultural memory --;Memorial novels : the English renaissance and the Victorian age --;Mnemonic spaces : identity and genre.
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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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Byatt, A. S. -- (Antonia Susan Drabble), -- 1936-
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Collective memory in literature.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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Lena Steveker
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Palgrave Connect (Online service)
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