Focusing on questions of intertextuality, authorship and representation, Re-visiting Angela Carteroffers a re-examination of one of the twentieth century's most important British writers. While the introductory essay theorizes the politics of Carter's writing, the individual chapters re-visit her re
Re-visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts
β Scribed by Rebecca Munford (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 222
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Angela Carter and the Politics of Intertextuality....Pages 1-20
Convulsive Beauty and Compulsive Desire: The Surrealist Pattern of Shadow Dance....Pages 21-41
Something Sacred: Angela Carter, Jean-Luc Godard and the Sixties....Pages 42-63
Albertine/a the Ambiguous: Angela Carterβs Reconfiguration of Marcel Proustβs Modernist Muse....Pages 64-86
βThe Other of the Otherβ: Angela Carterβs βNew-Fangledβ Orientalism....Pages 87-109
Bubblegum and Revolution: Angela Carterβs Hybrid Shakespeare....Pages 110-134
βThe Margins of the Imaginative Lifeβ: The Abject and the Grotesque in Angela Carter and Jonathan Swift....Pages 135-157
βCircles of Stage Fireβ: Angela Carter, Charles Dickens and Heteroglossia in the English Comic Novel....Pages 158-177
Behind Locked Doors: Angela Carter, Horror and the Influence of Edgar Allan Poe....Pages 178-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-207
β¦ Subjects
Twentieth-Century Literature; British and Irish Literature; Gender Studies; Fiction
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