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A. S. Byatt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Byatt's first novel, Shadow of a Sun, the story of a young girl growing up in the shadow of a dominant father, was published in 1964 and was followed by The Game (1967), a study of the relationship between two sisters. Byatt prefers to offer fantasy not as an escape, but as an alternative to, everyday life, creating what is often termed a "hybrid genre", a combination of experimental and realistic work. Byatt's younger half-sister, Margaret Drabble, is also a successful novelist, and the rivalry between the two is legendary, although of uncertain origin. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A._S._Byatt   (751 words)

MSN Encarta - A. S. Byatt Byatt, A(ntonia) S(usan), born in 1936, British writer and scholar, who gained worldwide recognition for her novel Possession (1990), which in 1990 won the Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award. Byatt then attended, on scholarship, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, and received her bachelor of arts degree in 1957. Byatt's second critical work, Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time (1970), was her last book for six years. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761581067/A_S_Byatt.html   (507 words)

The Net Net: ReadMe Byatt intertwines the story of the breakdown of Frederica's marriage, her refuge in London during the ferment of the 1960s and her experiences as a single mother, with sections from another story. Byatt has the ability to dazzle the reader with her virtuoso shuffling of themes, but sometimes the reader can feel like she's being asked to juggle too many balls at once. Byatt is an intellectual and I suspect might never have considered the average reader's interest in the personal passages might not carry over into issues of more cerebral importance. www.thenetnet.com /readme/babel.html   (869 words)

The Modern Word - "A Whistling Woman" Review Byatt’s chronicle of Joshua’s gradual mental and emotional reorganization of this horrendous trauma into a psychotic world view is equally compelling and repulsive because Joshua is neither a freak nor a fraud, but a man genuinely tormented by his demons and genuinely seeking God. Byatt agrees with Virginia Woolf: “It is true that we get nothing whatsoever except pleasure from reading.” Criticism, according to Byatt, engages the writer in order to give readers an approach to enjoying a book, not to its politics, nor any -ism, nor any value other than the underlying value of pleasure. Byatt has said that she resisted the publishers and readers calling these the “Frederica” novels; she intended there to be several central characters. www.themodernword.com /reviews/byatt_whistling.html   (3870 words)

A.S. Byatt, Elementals Byatt seems to have been attempting to capture something of Barbara Kingsolver in her writing style and theme here (she even swipes the not-truly-false memory concept from the latter's Animal Dreams), but she fails miserably to hit it. Seventy-five pages of Byatt prose is always going to be well-written, but her neglect of plot hamstrings the potential of this tale. Although the messages may not be original, Byatt's short but effective look at narcissism and capitalism is wittily told, and it's nice to see a member of the literary elite (other than Joyce Carol Oates) embrace a genre that so many greats toiled in a century ago. www.rambles.net /byatt_elem.html   (661 words)

Yale Review of Books: The Biographer's Tale For some baffling reason, Byatt picks a tired theme--the human inability to put together a true, ordered history of anything --and she smothers it with layer upon layer of irony, breaks it up with long stretches of historical tedium, and at the end gleefully points out that this kind of irony is irksome and inhuman. Byatt is clearly an erudite and well-read author, but her book brims with an intellectualism that, at times, drowns her story. Still, Byatt's considerable power as a storyteller, her ability to create atmosphere, and her romantic use of exotic detail--often subtle, creepy, Dickensian detail—do much to keep the reader interested. www.yale.edu /yrb/summer01/review08.htm   (808 words)

Vintage Catalog The Biographer's Tale by A. S. Byatt Byatt was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1936. Byatt is writing a novel, and Phineas discovers that, while trying to write a biography, he has written an autobiography. This seems to be an irony that Byatt intended as she constructed the beginning of her novel. randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375725083&view=rg   (1427 words)

Amardeep Singh: A.S. Byatt's The Game Byatt suggests this with her epigram from an 1835 poem by Charlotte Bronte ("We wove a web in childhood/ A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy/ Of water pure and fair"). All of Byatt's novels require a certain amount of persistence -- a curiosity about the imaginative worlds occupied by writers and artists from earlier historical eras, and a tolerance for the lives and loves of the academics who study them from the mid/late 20th century. But it also resembles (I don't know how much) the real-life rivalry between Byatt and her half-sister, the writer Margaret Drabble. www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/11/as-byatts-game.html   (593 words)

A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Critique of the Victorian Omission of Sexuality Byatt depicts Victorian marriage--represented by the poet Randolph Ash and his wife Ellen--in the same way a Victorian would have represented it, as evacuated of sexuality. As much as Byatt finds Victorian constructions of human sexuality limited, she suggests that twentieth-century fascination with sexuality and sexual theorizing is equally limited. Byatt's text thus casts a critical eye on the utility of modern theories of sexuality. www.postcolonialweb.org /uk/byatt/farrell4.html   (1143 words)

CNN.com - Entertainment - A.S. Byatt tells stories out of school - April 5, 2001 So piqued was Byatt about the direction of biographies that she decided to take her thoughts and put them in print. That would be Phineas G. Nanson, whom Byatt describes as "somebody who has no life at all." A graduate student who tires of his arcane studies in literary theory, Nanson wants to experience "things... "The Biographer's Tale" has gotten a better response than she had imagined, notes Byatt, who's working on a new book, this one another title in the Frederica Potter series (the most recent installment: "Babel Tower," 1996). archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/04/05/byatt.biographer   (1048 words)

Susan's 2020 Hindsight : on A. S. Byatt Byatt was interested in religious groups, and for Book 4 she intvented a cult, a Manichean cult. Byatt referred to the approach taken by Umberto Eco in The Name of The Rose, where such a complex work containing so many ideas is held within and told as a detective story. In one case, a man was placed in a courtroom trial, and Byatt reported the man saying words he actually said, but didn't say what the person felt. www.2020hindsight.org /2003/02/04.html   (1555 words)

Literature lover finds acclaim Byatt is currently in the process of working on a new novel about socialism and fairy tales, as well as a steady stream of short tales and stories. Part of Byatt's success is most certainly due to the fact that she is always prepared to begin something fresh. From John Milton to Robert Browning and everyone in between, including the Italian Dante, Byatt's studies as a young woman have led her on a lifelong journey to her current home under the roof of literary fame, where it seems she will enjoy a comfortable stay for the rest of her career. www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/articles.asp?ID=32435   (666 words)

Harry Potter News: A S Byatt The Booker prize-winning author A. Byatt was accused yesterday of dumping "a goblet of bile" on JK Rowling by insisting that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was lacking the skill of the great children's writers. Byatt may have more than just literary works on her mind when her criticism isn't solely aimed at Rowling, but to her grown-up fans as well... As most Potter fans should know, author A.S. Byatt has published a scathing review of the Harry Potter series, stating in one of her more memorable quotes that the Harry Potter series are for people with "limited imagination." True to style, Potter fans have flooded BBC with retorts aimed directly at Ms. www.hpana.com /newsbrowser.cfm?tid=112   (602 words)

Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Byatt, AS Byatt has spoken of the weight of the past, and "the feeling, when you're a woman, that you start with one hand tied behind your back". AS Byatt draws frequently on the themes and imagery of fairytales for her work. AS Byatt on the lure of the fairy tale books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-30,00.html   (569 words)

Powell's Books - Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt Byatt's use of language is lyrical and poignant. Byatt is the author of The Biographer's Tale, Elementals, and the Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, among other books. Possession, for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first published in 1990. www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0679735909-2   (840 words)

Independent, The (London): The dame who dared to criticise the world of Harry Potter: Profile: A But, because the subject of her criticism was none other than the sacred Harry Potter series, Byatt provoked a torrent of aggressively pro-Potter outrage, some of it phrased as a personal attack. But Byatt actually forms part of a non-conformist tradition that is hard-working and meticulous, but also full of sensuality and pleasure. with high moral seriousness", Byatt is sometimes taken for a hair-shirt kind of Puritan. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200307/ai_n12700099   (1465 words)

Amazon.com: Elementals : Stories of Fire and Ice (Vintage International): Books: A.S. Byatt Byatt describes the gradual approach of the Lamia to the artist with such creepy skill that she made my skin crawl. A.S. Byatt's stories simmer with a sensuality and passion that, like topiary trees in a formal garden, are pruned and trained into cultivated shapes while retaining the wild scent of the orchard. I have read several novels by A. Byatt, but this is the first book of her short stories that I have read and it did not disappoint. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375705759?v=glance   (1920 words)

A. S. Byatt ★ Steven Barclay Agency Byatt has served as chairperson for the Society of Authors and was also a member of the Kingman Committee on the Teaching of English. Already a formidable literary figure in England, A.S. Byatt achieved bestseller status in the United States with her Booker Prize-winning novel Possession: A Romance; the novel was made into a film in 2002. A.S. Byatt could be the patron saint of bookworms. www.barclayagency.com /byatt.html   (334 words)

Byatt, A(ntonia) S(usan) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Byatt, A(ntonia) S(usan) Byatt was born in Sheffield and educated at a Quaker boarding school (with her sister, novelist Margaret Drabble) and at Newnham College, Cambridge. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. Her critical works include Degrees of Freedom (1965), the first major study of Iris Murdoch. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Byatt,+A(ntonia)+S(usan)   (210 words)

"Possession", by A.S. Byatt Byatt provides a long description of the faded splendor of the Baileys’ upstairs bathroom, including (my personal favorite) an intricately-beflowered mahogany-seated privy of such magnificence that Roland thinks it would be “sacrilegious to use anything so beautiful for its proper purpose”. But according to Byatt, if you want to peek in a window at somebody’s soul, skip the eyes and head for the bathroom window, for it’s in the bathroom that our True Selves are revealed. Possession is also an extremely complex book, with Byatt piling more layers of meaning on her story than St. John the Divine after a fresh plate of ’shrooms. www.pa2rick.com /bathroom/possession.html   (956 words)

Featured Author: A. S. Byatt Byatt's prose is capacious yet exquisite, and it is proof of her ample gifts that she can rivet us with what, from a less unified talent, might feel like a travelogue, a restaurant review or art criticism." Byatt's "Possession" won Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, which helped establish her reputation in America. Byatt argues that "The Thousand and One Nights" is the best story collection of the millennium. partners.nytimes.com /books/99/06/13/specials/byatt.html   (733 words)

Angels and Insects - A.S.Byatt Adamson's love for Eugenia doesn't fully convince, and Byatt chooses not to consider closely how it evolves after they are wed (in part, no doubt, because Eugenia is meant to be seen as the unassailable queen ant, busy only breeding (and being protected)). The novella nicely compares civilization with the way animals (specifically insects) live; Byatt does this very well, and from the role of women to laws of nature she offers some remarkable examples, always nicely contrasted with the strange Alabaster world. It is dominated by poetry, as Byatt quotes extensively. www.complete-review.com /reviews/byattas/asandis.htm   (1013 words)

Byatt lets monsters run loose An angel of death meets a Teletubby doll Byatt's also known for her feud with her half-sister, Margaret Drabble, author of "The Witch of Exmoor," and Byatt's writing has that persnickety harshness of old women who set out to hate each other. A.S. Byatt, author of the Booker Prize-winning "Possession," which was made into a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow, is something of a grand dame of letters in England. Byatt takes us through her physical change in slow steps. sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/02/RVGDU69O2K1.DTL   (806 words)

News: Remembering the great Byatt debate Byatt's comments seem spawned from years of neglect and a severe lack of imagination on her part. a "goblet of bile," Byatt opined that JK Rowling's enormously popular series was written for "people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons." Her comments touched off a lively and very heated counteroffensive in the HP community. Byatt's comments generated so much chatter that HPANA created an entire archive to permanently record her blunder. www.hpana.com /news.17816.1.html   (1708 words)

AllRefer.com - A. S. Byatt (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia Byatt (Antonia Susan Byatt)[bI´ut] Pronunciation Key, 1936–, British novelist; sister of Margaret Drabble. Byatt, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies AllRefer.com - A. Byatt (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Byatt-An.html   (250 words)

Byatt, A. S. on Encyclopedia.com The Possession of Paradise: A. Byatt's reinscription of Milton.(Critical Essay) The Double Voice of Metaphor: A. Byatt's "Morpho Eugenia". Magazines and Newspapers for: Byatt, A. The Possession of Paradise: A. Byatt's reinscription of Milton.(Critical Essay) www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Byatt-A1n.asp   (412 words)

A. S. Byatt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Byatt was educated at the Newnham College, University of Cambridge, Byyn Moor in Pensylvania, USA and Somerville College, University of Oxford, though her research grant to the latter institution (dependent on single status) ended with her first marriage. Byatt's first novel, Shadow of a Sun, the story of a young girl growing up in the shadow of a dominant father, was published in 1964 and was followed by The Game (1967), a study of the relationship between two sisters. Byatt prefers to offer fantasy not as an escape, but as an alternative to, everyday life, creating what is often termed a "hybrid genre", a combination of experimental and realistic work. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A._S._Byatt   (819 words)

Essays on the Fiction of A. S. Byatt — www.greenwood.com Contending that Byatt's work renders the boundaries between criticism and fiction highly permeable, the responses to her work gathered in this volume purposely blur the demarcation lines between the different schools of thought currently fighting for critical supremacy. George Washington University: This engaging and comprehensive collection of essays on the fiction of A. Byatt illuminates her entire body of work, from the early novels to the most recent....Alexa Alfer's essay on Byatt's particular brand of literary realism typifies the strength and sophistication of the collection. Description: Over recent years, the increasing scope of A. Byatt's work as a writer has fostered a corresponding breadth of academic interest both in the traditional field of literary criticism and beyond the discipline among scholars of the natural and social sciences. www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=GM1518   (600 words)

A.S. Byatt, Possession Byatt's prose has a distinctly British feel to it; there's something academic and proper about her writing style. Each section, whether it is the diary entries of Ash's wife or the critical essays of Dr. Cropper and Dr. Blackadder (the two most eminent Ash scholars in the book), reads with the voice of its character; no two sound alike. In a sort of modern re-enactment of those two historical figures, Maud and Roland test their own evolving relationship as they search for missing manuscripts and letters to finish the story they stumbled upon. www.rambles.net /byatt_possess.html   (367 words)

SALON Departments: Lit Chat: A.S. Byatt nglish novelist A.S. Byatt has been described as a "postmodern Victorian." Her novels include the bestseller "Possession" and "Angels and Insects," which was recently made into a movie by director Phillip Haas. In an interview sponsored by San Francisco's City Arts and Lecture Series, Byatt discussed "Angels and Insects," D.H. Lawrence, and the challenges of literary feminism. I wanted to write a story which combined my obsession with television naturalism with my obsession with Victorian gothic. www.salon.com /08/departments/litchat.html   (340 words)

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