Preface / by Santosh Gupta -- Foreword -- Introduction: the poetics of a narrative -- The novel as a game -- Experiments with time structure -- Fictions of the self -- Art as power -- Myth-making and characterization -- Conclusion
Summary
The examines the development of the Scottish writer Muriel Spark as a major experimental writer through a detailed study of some of her critical writings and novels. This critical volume focuses on the radically innovative devices employed by Spark in her fiction as a mode to express her worldview
