- Title Pages
- Series editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright acknowledgements
- A. S. Byatt: biographical outline
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fathers, sisters and the anxiety of influence: <i>The Shadow of the Sun</i> and <i>The Game</i>
- 3 Writing the contemporary: <i>The Virgin in the Garden</i> and <i>Still Life</i>
- 4 Two cultures: <i>Babel Tower</i> and <i>A Whistling Woman</i>
- 5 Tradition and transformation: <i>Possession</i> and fairytales
- 6 The dark side of the tale: <i>The Children's Book</i>, <i>The Biographer's Tale</i> and <i>Angels and Insects</i>
- 7 Critical storytelling: peopling the paper house
- Bibliography
- I. Novels and collected short fiction by A. S. Byatt (First UK editions only)
- II. Uncollected short fiction by A. S. Byatt (First date and place of publication only)
- III. Collected non-fiction by A. S. Byatt (First UK edition only)
- IV. Selected uncollected non-fiction by A. S. Byatt (excludes journalism, reviews, art criticism and broadcasts except pieces directly quoted in this volume)
- V. Books edited by A. S. Byatt
- VI. Selected interviews with A. S. Byatt
- VII. Selected reviews of A. S. Byatt's fiction
- VIII. Selected criticism of A. S. Byatt's fiction
- IX. Other works cited
- Index
Fathers, sisters and the anxiety of influence: The Shadow of the Sun and The Game
Fathers, sisters and the anxiety of influence: The Shadow of the Sun and The Game
- Chapter:
- (p.11) 2 Fathers, sisters and the anxiety of influence: The Shadow of the Sun and The Game
- Source:
- A.S. Byatt
- Author(s):
Alexa Alfer
Amy J. Edwards de Campos
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
This chapter focuses on the early intersections of Byatt's fiction with both modern debates on the novel and the continuing relationship of mid-twentieth-century literature with the Romantic legacy. It provides readings of The Shadow of the Sun and The Game, which indicate Byatt's life long project of ‘critical storytelling’. It is a practice of storytelling that does not separate the literary from the critical imagination, but instead aims at a deliberate and thoughtful combination of the two ways of seeing and describing the world.
Keywords: modern debates, Romantic legacy, critical storytelling, critical imagination
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- Title Pages
- Series editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright acknowledgements
- A. S. Byatt: biographical outline
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fathers, sisters and the anxiety of influence: <i>The Shadow of the Sun</i> and <i>The Game</i>
- 3 Writing the contemporary: <i>The Virgin in the Garden</i> and <i>Still Life</i>
- 4 Two cultures: <i>Babel Tower</i> and <i>A Whistling Woman</i>
- 5 Tradition and transformation: <i>Possession</i> and fairytales
- 6 The dark side of the tale: <i>The Children's Book</i>, <i>The Biographer's Tale</i> and <i>Angels and Insects</i>
- 7 Critical storytelling: peopling the paper house
- Bibliography
- I. Novels and collected short fiction by A. S. Byatt (First UK editions only)
- II. Uncollected short fiction by A. S. Byatt (First date and place of publication only)
- III. Collected non-fiction by A. S. Byatt (First UK edition only)
- IV. Selected uncollected non-fiction by A. S. Byatt (excludes journalism, reviews, art criticism and broadcasts except pieces directly quoted in this volume)
- V. Books edited by A. S. Byatt
- VI. Selected interviews with A. S. Byatt
- VII. Selected reviews of A. S. Byatt's fiction
- VIII. Selected criticism of A. S. Byatt's fiction
- IX. Other works cited
- Index
