Theorising Muriel Spark Gender, Race,

Drawing together a range of significant names in the field of contemporary literature and critical theory, this collection of essays deals with the full range of Spark's literary output. It has a particular emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, post-colonial, and deconstructive reading strategies. It concludes with a new interview with Muriel Spark

Martin McQuillan is Lecturer in Cultural Theory and Analysis, University of Leed

Acknowledgements

vii

Abbreviations

viii

Notes on the Contributors

ix

Introduction: `I Don't Know Anything about Freud': Muriel Spark Meets Contemporary Criticism

1

(34)

Martin McQuillan

Part I Gender

Tales of Love: Narcissism and Idealization in The Public Image

35

(14)

Susan Sellers

The Future Perfect's Perfect Future: Spark's and Duras's Narrative Drive

49

(18)

Judith Roof

The Suggestive Spectacle: Queer Passions in Bronte's Villette and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

67

(11)

Patricia Duncker

In Bed with Muriel Spark: Mourning, Metonymy and Autobiography

78

(17)

Martin McQuillan

Part II Race

Writing against Conversion: Muriel Spark the Gentile Jewess

95

(18)

Bryan Cheyette

Muriel Spark Shot in Africa

113

(14)

Eleanor Byrne

A Bit of the Other: Symposium, Futility and Scotland

127

(14)

Alan Freeman

Part III Deconstruction

Muriel Spark's Uselessness

141

(14)

Jeremy Idle

Muriel Spark's Mary Shelley: A Gothic and Liminal Life

155

(15)

Julian Wolfreys

Not to Deconstruct? Righting and Deference in Not to Disturb

170

(19)

Willy Maley

Memento Mori

189

(15)

Nicholas Royle

Grimacing Catholicism: Muriel Spark's Macabre Farce and Muriel Spark's Latest Novel: The Public Image

204

(6)

Helene Cixous

`The Same Informed Air': An Interview with Muriel Spark

210

(20)

A Muriel Spark Bibliography

230

(12)

Index

242

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