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</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">An interesting juxtaposition of the novels. I've tracked Byatt’s references
to Woolf in several of her novels—from Still Life to The Children’s Book—usually
as a cultural marker within her characters’ milieu, a dropped name. In The
Fiction of A.S. Byatt (2000), Louise Hadley suggests that Still Life drew on
Woolf’s explorations of women’s psychological experiences using interior monologue.
She also thought Orlando influenced Biographer's Tale. </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font></div></span><div></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Alice<br></div><div><a href="http://www.aliceloweblogs.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font style="background-color: rgb(192, 255, 128);"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2">www.aliceloweblogs.wordpress.com</font></font></font></a><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="+0"> </font></font></div><div> </div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, August 9, 2014 1:03 PM, Elisa Sparks <SPARKS@clemson.edu> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div><div id="yiv2179881356">
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<div>Just finished A.S. Byatt's first novel, Shadow of the Sun, a sad rather dark book. Was thinking how interesting it would be to juxtapose it to Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, also about the thwarting of a young girl's initiation into maturity. The
next Byatt novel is The Game, about two sisters whose intersecting manipulations of fiction and reality ruin their lives...some similar themes to Woolf's sunnier second novel, Night and Day. This produced the following intriguing little chart (of course I
have every hope that Byatt produces another few novels, which will destroy this fearful symmetry.) And yes, I do know exactly how much Byatt would detest this comparison. Nevertheless, would love to start a reader's group of some kind to plot through these
pairings. Was thinking at least a month per pair. Anyone interested? Can be long-distance. </div>
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<div>I am currently contemplating another Woolf/O’Keeffe paper for next year’s conference, but it strikes me that this could turn into a panel. Or perhaps a workshop.</div>
<div>Elisa</div>
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<div>A.S. Byatt: Novels/<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>
Virginia Woolf : Novels</div>
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<div>1964 The Shadow of the Sun/<span style="white-space: pre;">
</span>1915 The Voyage Out</div>
<div>1967 The Game/<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>
1919 Night and Day</div>
<div>1978 The Virgin in the Garden/<span style="white-space: pre;">
</span>1922 Jacob’s Room</div>
<div>1985 Still Life/<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>
1925 Mrs. Dalloway</div>
<div>1990 Possession: A Romance/<span style="white-space: pre;">
</span>1927 To the Lighthouse</div>
<div>1997 Babel Tower/<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>
1928 Orlando</div>
<div>2000 The Biographer's Tale/ 1933 Flush</div>
<div>2002 A Whistling Woman/<span style="white-space: pre;">
</span>1931 The Waves</div>
<div>2009 The Children's Book/ 1937 The Years</div>
<div>2011 Ragnarok: The End of the Gods<span style="white-space: pre;">
</span>1941 Between the Acts</div>
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