Name: Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt
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Wonder Tales in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt

Edited By: Alexandra Cheira

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This volume provides critical attention on A.S. Byatt’s wonder tales. It examines her postmodern recreation of old forms through a variety of fresh and theoretically informed approaches, exploring the fertile creative-critical dialogue between her work and tradition.

This volume provides sustained critical attention on Byatt’s wonder tales, both the stand-alone tales and those which are embedded in the wider frame of a…

This volume provides sustained critical attention on Byatt’s wonder tales, both the stand-alone tales and those which are embedded in the wider frame of a novel or novella. In this light, it examines Byatt’s claim that her wonder tales “are modern literary stories and they do play quite consciously with a postmodern creation and recreation of old forms” through a revisitation of the wonder tale in a productive dialogue with tradition as an expanded recognition of this fertile creative-critical dialogue with regards to the significance of the wonder tale in Byatt’s fictional work. The book evinces a fresh variety of conceptions and approaches to Byatt’s wonder tales, some spanning several tales and others focussing on a specific wonder tale, all thoroughly observant of the nature and workings of the relationship between story or novel and genre or tale, and theoretically informed by innovative critical approaches.

Alexandra Cheira is a Researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Portugal. She holds a PhD in English Literature and Culture, with a dissertation focussing on A. S. Byatt’s fiction and critical work. Her current areas of research include contemporary women’s writing, gender and women’s studies, and wonder tales. She has published articles and book chapters on A. S. Byatt’s fiction, The One Thousand and One Nights, the conteuses, Victorian women writers and contemporary gendered sexual politics. She is the editor of (Re)Presenting Magic, (Un)Doing Evil: Of Human Inner Light and Darkness (2012). She also translated A. S. Byatt’s “Cold” into Portuguese and wrote an introduction to the tale for Contar um Conto/ Storytelling (2014), an anthology of short fiction by contemporary British and Irish authors in translation.

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