A.S. Byatt’s Art of Memory

This study offers a comprehensive reading of Byatt’s major novels. It highlights her textual strategies in interrelating her memories of the past with the history of ideas. Connections between narrative, cognitive science, and visual and literary culture display the full range of contextual references woven into her work.

This book provides a comprehensive reading of some of A.S. Byatt’s major novels. Focusing on memory, Renaissance forms of theatrical reinvention in post-war culture, ekphrasis, visuality, the cognitive processes of the mind, gender and science, the book retraces a network of theoretical questions illuminating the author’s fictional world from within. This study devotes special attention to the craft with which Byatt translates complex issues into imaginative fiction, engaging with Byatt’s texts. It presents a lucid and coherent account of a wide range of arguments underpinning the work of one of the most prolific and acclaimed contemporary writers.

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