WRITER

Muriel Spark

1918 - 2006

Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muriel Spark has received more than 862,500 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Muriel Spark is the 646th most popular writer (up from 803rd in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 655th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Writer.

Muriel Spark is most famous for her novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which was adapted into a stage play and film.

Memorability Metrics

860k
Page Views (PV)
65.00
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
40
Languages Editions (L)
13.75
Effective Languages (L*)
1.74
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Memento Mori

1958

The comforters

History

The twentieth century saw a proliferation of media discourses on colonialism and, later, decolonisation. Newspapers, periodicals, films, radio and TV broadcasts contributed to the construction of the image of the African “Other” across the colonial world. In recent years, a growing body of literature has explored the role of these media in many colonial societies. As regards the Italian context, however, although several works have been published about the links between colonial culture and national identity, none have addressed the specific role of the media and their impact on collective memory (or lack thereof). This book fills that gap, providing a review of images and themes that have surfaced and resurfaced over time. The volume is divided into two sections, each organised around an underlying theme: while the first deals with visual memory and images from the cinema, radio, television and new media, the second addresses the role of the printed press, graphic novels and comics, photography and trading cards.

1957

The Mandelbaum Gate

1965

The girls of slender means

1963

The ballad of Peckham Rye

Philosophy

The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new ‘cultivation of the self’ strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped reintroduce the eudaimonic tradition into mainstream philosophical debates, it has by and large been a revival of Aristotelian ethics combined with a modern preoccupation with standards for the moral rightness of actions. The essays comprising this volume offer a fresh approach to the eudaimonic tradition: instead of conditions for rightness of actions, it focuses on conceptions of human life that are best for the one living it. The first section of essays looks at the Hellenistic schools and the way they influenced modern thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, Hadot, and Foucault in their thinking about self-cultivation. The second section offers contemporary perspectives on ethical self-cultivation by drawing on work in moral psychology, epistemology of self-knowledge, philosophy of mind, and meta-ethics.

1960

Page views of Muriel Sparks by language

Over the past year Muriel Spark has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 99,387 views, followed by Spanish (5,926), and German (5,337). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Scots (111.96%), Southern Azerbaijani (89.20%), and Cornish (80.73%)