单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,*,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,*,*,Antonia Susan,Byatt,Unit 11,About the,A,uthor,Important,W,orks,Warm up,Q,uestions,Background Information,Plot,S,ummary,Analysis,Critical,R,esponse and,I,mpact,Born on 24 August 1936 in Sheffield,England.,Internationally known for her novels and short stories.,Booker Prize winner Possession.,Appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.,Born,Antonia Susan Drabble,24 August 1936,in Sheffield,Yorkshire.Daughter of John Drabble,QC and Kathleen Marie Bloor,a judge and the sister of novelist Margaret Drabble.,Family,Daughter of His Honour John Frederick Drabble,QC and late Kathleen Marie Bloor.Sister of novelist Margaret Drabble.,Education,Sheffield High School;The Mount School,York;Newnham College,Cambridge(BA Hons;Hon.Fellow 1999);Bryn Mawr College,Philadelphia,USA;Somerville College,Oxford.,Marriage,1st,1959,First husband,Ian Charles Rayner Byatt(Sir I.C.R.Byatt)marriage dissolved.1969;one daughter(one son deceased)2nd,1969,second husband,Peter John Duffy;two daughters.,Career,Lecturer in literature at Oxford,London and Cambridge universities 1962-83,She left in 1983 to concentrate on writing full-time;member of Kingman Committee on English Language,1987-88;Management Committee,Society of Authors,1984-88;Board of British Council,1993-1998.,Influences,Byatt has been influenced by Henry James and George Eliot as well as Emily Dickinson,T.S.Eliot,and Robert Browning,in merging realism and naturalism with fantasy.In her quartet of novels about mid-century England,she is clearly indebted to D.H.Lawrence,particularly,The Rainbow,and,Women in Love,.There and in other works,Byatt alludes to,and builds upon,themes from Romantic and Victorian literature.Byatt conceives of fantasy as as an alternative to-rather than an escape from-everyday life,and often it is difficult to tell if what is fantastic in her work is actually the irruption of psychosis.More recent books by Byatt have brought to fore her interest in science,particularly cognitive science and zoology.,Critical Reception,Byatt has been both praised and criticized for her intellectual scope and her willingness to deal with complex ideas in her fiction.Reviewers often note Byatts fascination with the creative process and the artists craft.Critics have also called attention to her interest in painting as an artistic expression and her use of painterly language to create a visual picture.Merle Rubin stated,“A.S.Byatt is an artful writer,craftsman like in her approach and drawn to themes involving art and artists.,An academic critic as well as a novelist,she has a painters eye for form and color,a scholars respect for significant detail.Several reviewers credit Byatt for her scholarship,but some complain that her fiction gets bogged down under the weight of her erudition.However,many critics assert that the strength of her storytelling keeps her narratives compelling.Byatts recreation of the Victorian novel of manners has also sparked discussions concerning the role of the postmodern novel and the relationship between history and contemporary fiction.,Fiction,The Frederica Quartet:The Virgin in the Garden,(1978),Still Life,(1985,Pen/Macmillan Silver Pen),Babel Tower,(1996),A Whistling Woman,(2002),Non-fiction,Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Time,(1970),Iris Murdoch,(1976),Other novels:,Possession:a Romance,(1990,Booker prize),Angels&Insects,(1993),The Biographers Tale,(2000),Rose-coloured Teacups,Comes from A.S.Byatts,The sugar and other stories,.A.S.Byatts short fictions,collected in paperback for the first time.,A short story which describes something trivial between Veronica and her daughterJane,.,Rose-coloured Teacups is a short story which describes something trivial between Veronica and her daughterJane.Jane treats the old sewing-machine roughly.Veronica,“she in the story,feels rage and decides to blame her.At the same time,she reminds the similar thing when she is young.This story talks about generation gap between mother and daughter.However,further,the author talks about the feminine living circumstances.The author wants to tell us that the feminine living circumstances is unchanged,but the situation will be changed at last.,12,Plots,Jane,Veronica,Veronicamother,Broke the sewing-machine,Felt very angry,Remenbered her,mothers voice,Understood,13,Jane,Traditional contempt,Alive Fashionable,“The sewing-machine had given up,Jane said,it was a stupid thing.,“She sat at the sewing-table and gave the machine a decisive slap.,“She lived amongst a festoon of electricity,hi-fi,hairdryer,tape-deck,curling-tongs,ciemper.,Traditional contempt,Alive,Fashionable,15,veronica,Traditional,，,Housewifery,，,Nostalgic,The feminine living circumstances,The author puts three women from different times i