Vocation and Identity in the Fiction of Muriel SparkUniversity of Missouri Press, 1990 - 165 من الصفحات Selecting novels representative of distinct phases in Muriel Spark's career, Rodney Stenning Edgecombe explores their themes, style, and structure in a detailed way for the first time. Edgecombe's approach brings to life the delicate nuances, rich allusions, and complicated ironies of Spark's fiction. His careful reading of the novels makes this a penetrating assessment of an important writer. |
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Secular Vocation | 7 |
Divine Vocation | 35 |
Integrative Vocation | 61 |
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Abbess of Crewe Alexandra antinomianism apparent Bachelors Barbara Vaughan becomes Beersheba belief Catholic Catholicism characters Christian Church cited parenthetically claim Cloud of Unknowing context conversion Cry from Kensington cult death detachment divine dogma Elsie emotional epigram epigrammatic epileptic ESTRAGON eternal fact faith Father feeling Felicity Felicity's Freddy Freddy's Gertrude Girls of Slender grace hostel Hubert human humanist identity imaginative Jane Jesuit Joanna John Updike later literal Loitering with Intent London Macmillan Maggie Maggie's Mandelbaum Gate Matthew Memento Mori mind Miss Jean Brodie moral Muriel Spark narrative Nicholas Nicholas's novel novelist nuns Obersturmbannführer obsession paradox passionate Peckham Rye poem poetry poise present priest Prime of Miss problem Public Image reality religion religious Ronald Sabbath Notebooks satire secular seems Selina sense Seton Slender Means solipsism Spark's novels spiritual suggests surrealism Takeover Teck things thought tion truth turns vision vocation voice Waiting for Godot Winifrede