TY - BOOK AU - Gardiner,Michael AU - Maley,Willy TI - The Edinburgh companion to Muriel Spark T2 - Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature SN - 9780748637690 (pbk.) : AV - PR6037.P29 Z65 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Spark, Muriel KW - Spark, Muriel. KW - Aufsatzsammlung N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Brief biography of Muriel Spark -- Introduction / Michael Gardiner and Willy Maley -- 1. Muriel Spark and the problems of biography / David Goldie -- 2. Poetic perception in the fiction of Muriel Spark / Vassiliki Kolocotroni -- 3. Body and state in Spark's early fiction / Michael Gardiner -- 4. The stranger Spark / Marilyn Reizbaum -- 5. Muriel Spark and the politics of the contemporary / Adam Piette -- 6. Spark, modernism and postmodernism / Matthew Wickman -- 7. Muriel Spark as Catholic novelist / Gerard Carruthers -- 8. Muriel Spark's break with romanticism / Paddy Lyons -- 9. The postwar contexts of Spark's writing / Randall Stevenson -- 10. Muriel Spark's crimes of wit / Drew Milne ER -