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- W645061039 abstract "Muriel Spark’s work has often been studied in the light of metafictionality by modern critics like Patricial Waugh, Ruth Whittaker, Malcolm Bradbury, Gerardine Meaney, and others. Her interest in the fictional process is revealed in her adoption of metafictional methods, whereby she exposes the structures that underlie the process of writing. What is of particular importance to these critics is Spark’s preoccupation with metafictionality and plotting, which imprison her characters and mark their inability to escape writing. This work shall attempt a new approach to Spark’s texts, reading them from a wider postmodern/poststructural point of view. Postmodernism, with its emphasis on the intertextual games one can play with texts, can, as I hope to show, offer new readings of her work. In Spark’s writing there are infinite games that have not yet been discussed. Her novels and short stories foreground the play with texts, images, and spectacles in which her characters and her narratives are immersed and undone. Even her religion is embroiled in this playful atmosphere, becoming yet another structure that seduces and destroys with its regulations. In The Takeover, for example, Roman Catholicism is inserted, along with primitive cults, in a game with simulated orgies and rites where the most impressive spectacle will dominate the scene. This thesis will focus on the “play” quality of Muriel Spark’s writing and the seductive and destructive games associated with the process of construction: “seductive,” because the power of existing structures is ever more present in her work, luring with its promise of dominance; and “destructive,” since the introduction into these structures is associated with an alienation of the subject. It is one of the main concepts of poststructuralism that the subject is born into an already established symbolic system, which dictates its future position. In other words, it is this system that inscribes the individual." @default.
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- W645061039 title "Seduction and Death in Muriel Spark's Fiction" @default.
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