Heterotopia in Angela Carter's fiction : worlds in collision / Eliza Claudia Filimon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Filimon, Eliza Claudia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Place (Philosophy)--Fiction.

Place (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Angela Carter's work is a collage of discourses and genres. The challenge of finding a critical framework, complex and accurate enough to classify her work, has remained. The spectacular and the pragmatic threads of her texts, framed by extreme seriousness and witty humour are unraveled with the help of a different metaphor, denoting enigmatic spaces, conterdiscourses, borders of otherness - heterotopia. Five novels out of nine, five short stories out of thirty-five, as well as Carter's two film adaptations are filtered through a term extricated from its medical and geographical roots, which

Contents:

Heterotopia in Angela Carter's Fiction; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; 1. CONVERGING ECHOES; 1.1. INTRODUCING ANGELA CARTER; 1.2. DEFINING HETEROTOPIA; 2. HETEROTOPIAN ZONES- INNER DEPTHS OF OUTER SPACES; 2. 1. DISMANTLING CATACOMBS; 2. 2. MAZES OF THE OUTSIDE; 3. HETEROTOPIA - REACHING FOR THE OTHER; 3.1. DUPLICITOUS DOLLS; 3.2. INNOCENT PREDATORS; 3.3. CANNIBALS; 3.4. DESIRED OTHERS; 4. HETEROTOPIA - DYNAMICS OF PERFORMANCE; 4.1. SCENES OF DISSEMBLANCE; 4.2. TWISTS OF PASSION; 4.3. SONGS AND DANCES; 5. HETEROTOPIA - THE WARP AND WEFT OF STORYTELLING

5.1. THE 'CONFIDENCE TRICK' 5.2. EMBROIDERING GENEALOGIES; 5.3. CINEMATIC SPINNERS; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014).

ISBN:

3-95489-677-X

OCLC:

871779642