@article{ref1,
title="Something Excessive : Muriel Spark's Reality and Dreams",
journal="Journal of the Society of English and American Literature, Kansei Gakuin University",
year="2005",
author="Sawada, Chikako",
volume="50",
number="1",
pages="21-41",
abstract="This paper discusses Muriel Spark's Reality and Dreams (1996), a novel which covers such contemporary concerns as unemployment, male impotence, female violence and the film industry. Here the author's theorising of the &quot;individual subjectivity&quot; in the postmodern world converges on the excess - evil, violence, desire, Otherness - of a missing girl and on the excess - from extravagance to redundancy - detected in contemporary life. Bringing an empty space created by the missing girl and the world of image-making business together into the field of vision, the novel explores &quot;the tract of noman's land between dreams and reality.&quot; This study, dealing in particular with her analysis of excess, argues that Spark pursues the theme of excess and opens up the contradictions inherent in this notion to bring about a new philosophy of life by art as excess.<p />",
language="",
issn="0424-6853",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}