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A Whistling Woman
''A Whistling Woman'' is a 2002 novel by A. S. Byatt. The novel was published by Chatto & Windus in 2002. The novel is the final in a sequence of four books, preceded by '' The Virgin in the Garden'' (1978), '' Still Life'' (1985), and '' Babel Tower'' (1996). Jonathan Walker, in a paper published by ''Contemporary Literature'', referred to the series of books as the "Frederica quartet". Byatt herself expressed a preference for ''The Virgin in the Garden'' quartet when speaking about it ("It isn't Frederica's book--though she's the sort of person who would muscle in and try to take it!") and noted her publisher's intention to produce a boxed set, simply titled ''The Quartet''. Byatt has said the novel is "about utopianism...and a dangerous sort of mystical romanticism". ''A Whistling Woman'' is half dedicated to Frances Ashcroft Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft (born 1952) is a British ion channel physiologist. She is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chatto & Windus
Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his business partner Andrew Chatto and poet William Edward Windus. The company was purchased by Random House in 1987 and is now a sub-imprint of Vintage Books within the Penguin UK division. History The firm developed out of the publishing business of John Camden Hotten, founded in 1855. After his death in 1873, it was sold to Hotten's junior partner Andrew Chatto (1841–1913), who took on the poet William Edward Windus (1827-1910), son of the patron of J. M. W. Turner, Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1790-1867), as partner. Chatto & Windus published Mark Twain, W. S. Gilbert, Wilkie Collins, H. G. Wells, Wyndham Lewis, Richard Aldington, Frederick Rolfe (as Fr. Rolfe), Aldous Huxley, Samuel Beckett, the "unfinished" novel ''Weir of Hermiston'' (1896) by R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetralogy
A tetralogy (from Greek τετρα- ''tetra-'', "four" and -λογία ''-logia'', "discourse") is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works. The name comes from the Attic theater, in which a tetralogy was a group of three tragedies followed by a satyr play, all by one author, to be played in one sitting at the Dionysia as part of a competition. Examples Literature * Tetrateuch is a sometime name for the first four books of the Bible. The Tetrateuch plus Deuteronomy are collectively referred to as the Pentateuch. * ''Tintitives'' by Antiphon of Rhamnus; the author was an orator, and ''Tintitives'' is a kind of textbook for students. Each book consists of four speeches: the prosecutor's opening speech, the first speech for the defense, the prosecutor's reply, and the defendant's conclusion. Three of his tetralogies are known to have survived. * The traditional arrangement of the works of Plato into nine tetralogies, including some doubtful works, and the letters as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virgin In The Garden
''The Virgin in the Garden'' is a 1978 realist novel by English novelist A. S. Byatt. Set during the same year as the coronation of Elizabeth II, the novel revolves around a play about Elizabeth I of England. The novel features a strong use of symbolism, which ''The New York Times'' called "overloaded", that points towards Elizabeth I. The novel is the first of a quartet featuring Frederica Potter, followed by '' Still Life'' (1985), '' Babel Tower'' (1996), and ''A Whistling Woman'' (2002). The book features numerous flower metaphors and Byatt described the character of Marcus as "a self-portrait: somebody baffled by things being far too much and not fittable into any of the languages you were offered". Reception ''The New York Times'' describes the writing of "Byatt is essentially a fine, careful and very traditional storyteller." In a 1998 interview with Philip Hensher, published in ''The Paris Review'' in 2001, Byatt commented on a piece which John Sutherland had written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Still Life (Byatt Novel)
''Still Life'' is a 1985 novel by A. S. Byatt. The novel was published by Chatto & Windus in 1985. The novel is the second in Tetralogy, a sequence of four books, preceded by ''The Virgin in the Garden'' (1978) and succeeded by ''Babel Tower'' (1996) and ''A Whistling Woman'' (2002). In the interval between publication of ''Still Life'' and ''Babel Tower'', Byatt published ''Possession (Byatt novel), Possession: A Romance'', her best-selling novel, which won the 1990 Booker Prize. References External links * 1985 British novels Chatto & Windus books Novels by A. S. Byatt {{1980s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babel Tower
''Babel Tower'' is a novel by A. S. Byatt, published by Chatto & Windus in 1996. It was the third part in a tetralogy, following ''The Virgin in the Garden'' (1978) and '' Still Life'' (1985) and preceding ''A Whistling Woman ''A Whistling Woman'' is a 2002 novel by A. S. Byatt. The novel was published by Chatto & Windus in 2002. The novel is the final in a sequence of four books, preceded by '' The Virgin in the Garden'' (1978), '' Still Life'' (1985), and '' Bab ...'' (2002). In the interval between publication of ''Still Life'' and ''Babel Tower'', Byatt published '' Possession: A Romance'', her best-selling novel, which won the 1990 Booker Prize. References External links * 1996 British novels Chatto & Windus books Novels by A. S. Byatt Novels set in the United Kingdom {{1990s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Literature (journal)
''Contemporary Literature'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes interviews with notable and developing authors, scholarly essays, and reviews of recent books critiquing the contemporary literature field. Genre coverage includes poetry, the novel, drama, creative nonfiction, and new media (including digital literature and the graphic narrative). The editor-in-chief is Thomas Schaub (University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...). It was established in 1960 as the ''Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature'', obtaining its current title in 1968. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed by: References External links * {{University of Wisconsin–Madison Literary magazines publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Ashcroft
Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft (born 1952) is a British ion channel physiologist. She is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology at the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function. Her research group has an international reputation for work on insulin secretion, type II diabetes and neonatal diabetes. Her work with Andrew Hattersley has helped enable children born with diabetes to switch from insulin injections to tablet therapy. Education Ashcroft was educated at Talbot Heath School and the University of Cambridge where she was awarded a degree in Natural Sciences (Cambridge), Natural Sciences followed by a PhD in zoology in 1978. Career and research Ashcroft then did postdoctoral research at the University of Leicester and the University of California at Los Angeles. Ashcroft is a director of Oxion: Ion Channels and Disease Initiative, a research and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chatto & Windus Books
Chatto may refer to: * Chatto (surname) * Chatto & Windus, a UK book publisher based in London * Pickering & Chatto Publishers Pickering & Chatto is an imprint of Routledge which publishes in the humanities and social sciences, specializing in monographs, critical editions (works, diaries, correspondence) and thematic source collections. Pickering & Chatto's academic monog ..., based in London * Beth Chatto Gardens, in Essex, UK See also * Chato (other) * Catto (other) * Chatton (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By A
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
