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Article: A. S. Byatt On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays.(Book Review)
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- International Fiction Review
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- January 1, 2003
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 196. $22.95
In the seven essays in this collection A. S. Byatt continues her lifelong meditation on the art of storytelling. Five of the chapters were originally delivered as lectures: the first three as the Richard Ellmann lectures at Emory University, the fourth as a paper in an Oxford symposium, and the fifth as the Finzi-Contini lecture at Yale. Two shorter pieces appeared in an anthology and in the New York Times Magazine respectively. Byatt's theoretical writing characteristically looks both outward and inward; the book will engage readers of British and European fiction during the past sixty years as well as ...
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Transcript: Profile: A.S. Byatt retires her best-known character in ...
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... ... Edition 04-23-2003 Profile: A.S. Byatt retires her best-known character in her ... 00 Noon BOB EDWARDS, host: A.S. Byatt perhaps is best known in the United States ... Booker Prize-winning "Possession." Byatt's most enduring character is Frederica ...
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