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Imagining charactersA. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre

Imagining characters

A. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre
1995268 pages
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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, Charlotte Bronte's Villette, George Eliot'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 very lives. Whether they are examining the bewildering passivity of Jane Austen's heroines, exploring Willa Cather's code…

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5 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 1999
    Random House Value Publishing · 9780517452479
  • Other · English · 1997
    Vintage Books · 268 pages · 9780679777533
  • Other · English · 1997
    Imagining Characters: Six Conversations about Women Writers
    Tandem Library · 9781417719488
  • Other · English · 1996
    Vintage · 304 pages · 9780099591214
  • Other · English · 1995
    Chatto and Windus · 268 pages · 9780701165000
Psychoanalysis and literatureInterviewsHistory and criticismWomen authorsWomen and literatureEnglish fictionAmerican fictionEnglish fiction, women authors