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ISBN. 978-0-7011-3260-6. Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by English writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize for Fiction. The novel explores the postmodern concerns of similar novels, which are often categorised as historiographic metafiction, a genre that blends approaches from both historical fiction and metafiction.
- A.S Byatt
- 1990
Blackadder buries Ash with footnotes and then erases himself: ‘Much of his writing met this fate. It was set down, depersonalised, and then erased. Much of his time was spent deciding whether or not to erase things. He usually did’ (300). Blackadder demonstrates the ‘death wish’ identified by George Levine in Dying to Know (2002)Levine ...
- Kate Mitchell
- 2010
A.S. Byatt’s novel Possession: A Romance has been confronting the critics and readers with several epistemological puzzles for more than two decades.
torn into his innermost self, stealing his mate long before she had been locked in an iron coffin. And after he was done with her, after that, then he’d take on the cold-blooded gods themselves, hell-bent on destroying what might remain of his mate. So he stayed with his companions, even as the days passed. Then the weeks. Then months.
The astrologer in “An Astrologer’s Day” looks like a wise old soothsayer. Physical features of his appearance—like his painted forehead, gleaming eyes, and long beard—help him in his ...
Jun 21, 2012 · Mike Saks. Defining a Profession: The Role of. Knowledge and Expertise. 1. Abstract: The paper highlights the importance of resurrecting the debate about. how to define a profession. The drive to ...
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By Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng According to Setreng the fairytale character of the Ash-Lad is a “classical figure of Norwegian ecophilosophy and ecopolitics.” In his interpretation of the deeper meaning of the story, which first appeared in print in 2007, Setreng explores parallels with Gandhi’s process thinking and philosopher Henri Bergson’s thoughts on the origin of laughter.
