Passions of the Mind

by A . S . Byatt (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.25

  A selection of essays reflecting the varied enthusiasms of A.S.Byatt. It sweeps from great Romanticism and Victorians to modern writers, from the art of Van Gogh to the value of myth. Two major sections trace A.S.Byatt's fascination with the complex links between the symbolic and the real, and her changing views on her own craft of writing. A.S.Byatt's novels include Shadow of the Sun , The Game , The Virgin in the Garden , Still Life , Sugar and other Stories and Possession: a Romance .

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  Paperback
  1993

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  In Passions of the Mind, A S Byatt writes as an artist and scholar taking the reader on a journey of discovery as she explores the ideas, images and attitudes to language underpinning some of her own ficiton, and also the work of Great Victorians and a varied range of twentieth century women writers. Fascinated by the coincidence of the symbolic and real which she finds in her favourite writers - Robert Browning, George Eliot and Wallace Stevens - A S Byatt also celebrates this quality in the sun and shados of Van Gogh's painting.

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $6.01

  A selection reflecting the varied enthusiasms of A.S. Byatt, this work sweeps from the Romantics and Victorians to modern British writers, from the art of Van Gogh to the poems of Sylvia Plath. Two sections trace Byatt's fascination with the complex links between the symbolic and the real, and her changing views on language and her own craft of writing. A.S. Byatt's novels include Shadow of the Sun , The Game , The Virgin in the Garden , Still Life , Sugar and Other Stories and Possession: a Romance , winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize and the 1990 Booker Prize.