Post-Modernism in Muriel Spark’s “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie “
Post-Modernism in Muriel Spark’s “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie “ By Suparna Sinha ABSTRACT Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is one of the finest works in contemporary Scottish literature. It was published in 1961, and depicted the period between WWI and WWII. In 1998, Modern Library, New York chose this book to be in the top 100 best English Language novels of the 20 th century, and in 2005 the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present. This book is about a school teacher who taught a set of six girls in a school at Edinburgh. She is often shown to cross over the bounds of the subjects she is teaching into territories that opens the minds of her students. The story takes place before the advent of the Second World War. It can be classified under Postmodernist literature as there are entwined themes, repetition of sub-themes, subjectivism, convoluted ...