Of prisms and prose: reading paintings in A.S. Byatt's work / Michael Worton -- A modern "seer blest": the visionary child in The virgin in the garden / Judith Plotz -- Realism and its discontents: The virgin in the garden and still life / Alexa Alfer -- A tower of tongues: Babel tower and the art of memory / Michael J. Noble -- In search of self and self-fulfilment: themes and strategies in A.S. Byatt's early novels / Kuno Schuhmann -- "What's love got to do with it?": postmodernism and Possession / Jackie Buxton -- Conclusion in Possession / Jean-Louis Chevalier -- Wonder-tales hiding a truth: retelling tales in "The djinn in the nightingale's eye" / Annegret Maack -- "Forever possibilities. And impossibilities, of course": women and narrative in The djinn in the nightingale's eye / Jane Campbell -- Writing natural history: "morpho eugenia" / Sally Shuttleworth -- Angels and insects: theory, analogy, metamorphosis / Michael Levenson -- True stories and the facts in fiction / A.S. Byatt.