On Histories and Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: A. S. Byatt
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Literature, Storytelling, Literary criticism
On Histories and Stories brings together two sets of lectures, the Richard Ellmann memorial series at Emory University and the Finzi-Contini talk given at Yale, with a few other related occasional pieces, all of which focus primarily on contemporary literature. In them, the prominent British novelist A. S. Byatt addresses nothing less than the complex connections between reading and writing: reading as it is done by the “amateur” lover of books—whom Virginia Woolf famously called “the common reader”—and the “professional” literary critic; and writing as done by...
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