ANETTE PANKRATZ BARBARA PUSCHMANN-NALENZ (Eds.) Portraits of the Artist as a Young Thing in British, Irish and Canadian Fiction after 1945 Universitatsverlag WINTER Heidelberg Contents Anette Pankratz & Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz: Introduction. Portraits of the Artists in Context 7 Ingrid von Rosenberg: "And Out of Chaos, a New Kind of Strength". The (Re)Birth of a (Still) Young "Authoress" in Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook 25 Alexa Keuneke: Writing the Self as a Life Narrative. Margaret Laurence's The Diviners as Kunstlerroman 47 Christiane Bimberg: From Childhood to Retrospective. Portrait of an Artist in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye 69 Brigitte Glaser: Women's Art of Telling Li(v)es. Female Artist Figures in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin 91 Marion Gymnich: "A Time When Creativity Is Rated High". Penelope Lively's Satire on Art and Artists in Next to Nature, Art 113 Uwe Klawitter: "Unsound Elements Seemed to Have Crept Into Her Nar­ rative". The Representation of Female Writers in Anita Brookner's Novels Look at Me and Hotel du Lac 131 Lena Steveker: "My Solitude Is My Treasure, the Best Thing I Have". A.S. Byatt's Female Artists 155 Peter Childs: Ian McEwan's Venus Envy Revisited 169 Susana Onega-. Portraits of the Artist in the Novels of Jeanette Winterson 187 Jean-Michel Ganteau: Non Serviam. Portraits of the Artist as a Young Performer 207 Silvia Mergenthal: Visceral Music. The Female Composer in Bernard Mac- Laverty's Grace Notes 225 Christian Schmitt-Kilb: Re-Reading the Re-Written Portrait of the Young Artist. Bernadine Evaristo's Laras 241 Anette Pankratz: "Nothing That Is Worth Knowing Can Be Taught". Artists and Academia in Novels by A.S. Byatt, David Lodge and Zadie Smith 259 Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz: Re-Writing the Story of the Swallow, the Nightingale and the Hoopoe. Emma Tennant's Novel The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted 283 Renate Brosch: The Figure of the Artist in David Lodge's and Colm Toibi'n's Biofictions of Henry James 299 Contributors'Addresses 319 6 .