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Critical essays on Angela Carter / edited by Lindsey Tucker.
Van Pelt Library PR6053.A73 Z57 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical essays on British literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carter, Angela, 1940-1992--Criticism and interpretation.
- Carter, Angela.
- Carter, Angela, 1940-1992.
- Women and literature--England--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- England.
- History.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 256 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, [1998]
- Contents:
- Notes from the Front Line / Angela Carter 24
- The Dangers of Angela Carter / Elaine Jordan 33
- Angela Carter: Supersessions of the Masculine / David Punter 46
- The Violence of Gendering: Castration Images in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, The Passion of New Eve, and "Peter and the Wolf" / Jean Wyatt 60
- The Short Stories
- Re-Constructing Oedipus through "Beauty and the Beast" / Sylvia Bryant 83
- Pornography, Fairy Tales, and Feminism: Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" / Robin Ann Sheets 96
- Isn't It Romantic?: Angela Carter's Bloody Revision of the Romantic Aesthetic in "The Erl-King" / Harriet Kramer Linkin 119
- Blonde, Black and Hottentot Venus: Context and Critique in Angela Carter's "Black Venus" / Jill Matus 134
- The Novels
- Written on the Body: The Materiality of Myth in Angela Carter's Heroes and Villains / Joanne Gass 145
- The Anti-Hero as Oedipus: Gender and the Postmodern Narrative [in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman] / Sally Robinson 159
- The Body of the City: Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve / Nicoletta Vallorani 176
- Feminist Metafiction and Androcentric Reading Strategies: Angela Carter's Reconstructed Reader in Nights at the Circus / Beth A. Boehm 191
- Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: An Engaged Feminism via Subversive Postmodern Strategies / Magali Cornier Michael 206
- Revamping Spectacle: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus / Mary Russo 228.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0783800479
- OCLC:
- 39522869
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