Angela Carter new critical readings edited by Sonya Andermahr and Lawrence Phillips.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andermahr, Sonya, editor.

Phillips, Lawrence (Lawrence Alfred), 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carter, Angela, 1940-1992--Criticism and interpretation.

Carter, Angela.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York Continuum International Pub. Group 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter's work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches. Angela Carter: New Critical Readings both evaluates Carter's legacy as feminist provocateur and postmodern stylist, and broaches new ground in considering Carter as, variously, a poet and a 'naturalist'. Including coverage of Carter's earliest writings and her journalism as well as her more widely studied novels, short stories and dramatic works, the book covers such topics as rescripting the canon, surrealism, and Carter's poetics

Contents:

Introduction

Genre and canon

Philosophies

3. Mythologies

Notes

on Contributors

1. Introduction

Part I: Genre and Canon

2. Contemporary Women's Writing: Carter's

Literary Legacy Sonya Andermahr

3. 'Isn't it every girl's dream to be married

in white?': Angela Carter's Bridal Gothic Sarah Gamble

4. Between the Paws of

the Tender Wolf: Authorship, Adaptation and Audience Lorna Jowett

5. Angela

Carter's Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets,

Hermaphroditic Dreams, and Jacobean Westerns Susanne Gruss\ 6. The Moral Right of Food: Angela Carter's

'Food Fetishes' Maria José Pires

7. The Alchemy of Reading in Angela Carter's

'Alice in Prague or The Curious Room' Michelle Ryan-Sautour

8. 'Cradling an

axe like a baby': Angela Carter's Lulu Mine Özyurt Kiliç

Part II:

9. Sex, Violence, and Ethics - Reassessing Carter's 'Moral'

Relativism Lawrence Phillips \10.Angela Carter, Naturalist Anja Müller-Wood

11.The Surrealist Uncanny in Shadow Dance Anna

Watz

12. The Art of Speculation: Allegory and Parody as Critical Reading

Strategies in The Passion of New Eve Kari Jegerstedt

13. Blending the

Pre-Raphaelite with the Surreal in Angela Carter's Shadow Dance (1966) and Love

(1971) Katie Garner

Part III: Mythologies

14. Genesis and Gender: The Word,

the Flesh, and the Fortunate Fall in 'Peter and the Wolf' and 'Penetrating to

the Heart of the Forest' Hope Jennings

15. 'Ambulant Fetish': The Exotic

Woman in 'Black Venus' and 'Master' Sarah Artt

16. Seeing the City, Reading

the City, Mapping the City: Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop and the Sixties

Simon Goulding

Through the Looking Glass: Playing with Schizophrenia and

Surrealism in Shadow Dance Jane Hentgès

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781441177766

1441177760

9781472542236

1472542231

9781283735964

1283735962

9781441141118

1441141111

OCLC:

810082577