A.S.Byatt: Art, Authorship, Creativity

A consideration of the work of the novelist and critic A.S. Byatt in the context of contemporary debates about art, authorship, creativity and gender. A.S. Byatt emerges as an author who presents us with fascinating and ambivalent portraits of writers and who uses metaphors of creativity in original ways. The book rejects previous traditionalist, non-feminist interpretations of Byatt.