Margaret Drabble (Hardcover)

Margaret Drabble is a writer whose subject matter and technique have developed profoundly since the early sixties: this book draws together the different aspects of her narrative practice, and looks at the increasing flexibility of her narrative methods, both in terms of the kinds of narrator used and in the structuring of plot events. The often distanced and ironic narration is discussed, and shown to reinforce Drabble's recurrent themes - themes that include the effect of early family influence and heredity on free choice, the inexorable pressure of social changes, and the role of accident in destabilising the confident individual. In the later novels people move in a world where they and others may be victims of a callous society, but may equally be guilty of condoning or promoting society's worst trends. This study describes how the narrative increasingly becomes ambiguous, offering then withholding support for the behaviour of the characters, and challenging the reader to think again.

General

Imprint:	Liverpool University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Writers and Their Work
Release date:	October 2004
First published:	December 2005
Authors:	Glenda Leeming
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-0-7463-1052-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-7463-1052-8
Barcode:	9780746310526

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