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Angela Carter and decadence : critical fictions/fictional critiques / Maggie Tonkin.
Van Pelt Library PR6053.A73 Z89 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tonkin, Maggie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carter, Angela, 1940-1992--Criticism and interpretation.
- Carter, Angela.
- Carter, Angela, 1940-1992.
- Decadence in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 223 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Summary:
- British writer Angela Carter described herself as a feminist, yet her fiction scandalized many feminists. With their frequent depictions of sexual violence and women as fetishized objects on display, Carter's novels and short stories referenced many misogynistic male-authored texts from the literary canon, particularly from the tradition of European Decadence. Through a series of juxtaposed readings of Carter's fictions alongside the canonical texts to which she alludes, and a discussion of the critical debates surrounding these texts, Angela Carter and Decadence offers a re-examination of Carter's writing practice. Individual chapters examine her intertextual allusions to Hoffmann, Proust, Poe, Baudelaire and Villiers de L'lsle-Adam, with sections on the representation of Woman as doll, muse and femme fatale. Through its scrutiny of Carter's claim that her fiction is a form of literary criticism, this study contributes forcefully to contemporary scholarly debates about feminism, aesthetics and postmodernist writing practices. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Olympia's Revenge 26
- 3 The Muse Exhumed 55
- 4 The Ambiguous Muse 65
- 5 The 'Poe-etics' of Decomposition: 'The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe' and the Reading-Effect 91
- 6 Musing on Baudelaire: 'Black Venus' and the Poet as Dead Beloved 109
- 7 Whose Fantasy is the Femme? 136
- 8 Dialectical Dames: Thesis and Antithesis in The Sadeian Woman 154
- 9 There Never was a Woman like Leilah: The Passion of New Eve 170
- 10 Conclusion 197.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230284159
- 0230284159
- OCLC:
- 780161599
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