Muriel Spark, Existentialism and The Art of Death
- Submitting institution
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University of Aberdeen
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 141971658
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474447201
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book required research across various disciplines to provide a radical re-interpretation of Muriel Spark’s fiction. The research included,
(1) detailed analysis of Spark’s novels, short stories, essays and interviews;
(2) examination of the works of Søren Kierkegaard available to Spark from the 1940s;
(3) exploration of the philosophical and literary interpretation of Kierkegaard in the Anglophone world;
(4) comparison of the philosophies of existentialism, from Christian existentialism in the 1920s to atheistic existentialism in the 1950s;
(5) analysis of the aesthetics of existentialism in Sartre and Heidegger;
(6) consideration of Spark’s works in relation to accounts of ‘postmodernist’ art.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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