Memento Mori is brilliantly sharp, but it is it too cruel?
The Guardian,
Muriel Spark’s tale of decrepit characters being rudely reminded of their mortality has been branded ‘gerontophobic’.
Theorising Muriel Spark
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Introduction ‘I Don’t Know Anything about Freud’: Muriel Spark Meets Contemporary Criticism
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 Tales of Love : Narcissism and Idealization in The Public Image
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 The Future Perfect’s Perfect Future: Spark’s and Duras’s Narrative Drive
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 The Suggestive Spectacle: Queer Passions in Brontë’s Villette and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 In Bed with Muriel Spark: Mourning, Metonymy and Autobiography
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 Writing against Conversion: Muriel Spark the Gentile Jewess
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 Muriel Spark Shot in Africa
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 A Bit of the Other: Symposium , Futility and Scotland
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 Muriel Spark’s Uselessness
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 10 Muriel Spark’s Mary Shelley : A Gothic and Liminal Life
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 11 Not to Deconstruct? Righting and Deference in Not to Disturb
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 12 Memento Mori
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 13 Grimacing Catholicism: Muriel Spark’s Macabre Farce (1) and Muriel Spark’s Latest Novel: The Public Image (2)
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 14 ‘The Same Informed Air’: An Interview with Muriel Spark