| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 288 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- Part I 'Carter's Funny Bone' -- Feminist Laughter -- 1 Angela Carter's "Furious Laughter": Baudelaire, Breton, Beckett -- 2 From the Margins to the Text: Monsters and Laughter in Angela Carter's Writing -- 3 Angela Carter's Funny Bone -- 4 The Indigestible Poetics of Angela Carter -- Part II 'The Play's the Thing' -- Ludic Feminism -- 5 Ludic Liminality: "Certain Kinds of Exuberance" -- 6 "Scattered and Recomposed": Poststructuralist Play in The Passion of New Eve -- 7 Nothing Immune: Angela Carter at Play |
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8 Terrible Intersections: The Party as Performative Space in Angela Carter's Fiction -- Part III 'The Laugh of the Medusa' -- Feminist F(r)ictions and Fusions -- 9 Dora and Medusa Share a Laugh: Angela Carter's Play on Hélène Cixous's Feminist Theory in Wise Children -- 10 Thatcher, the Carnivalesque and Punishing Laughter: Angela Carter and the Ambiguities of the Comic -- 11 The Cyborg in the Tigress' Hide: Angela Carter's Postmodern Ecologies -- The Editors and Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Carter, Angela, 1940-1992.
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| SUBJECT |
Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 fast |
| Subject |
Feminism in literature.
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Feminism in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gustar, Jennifer, editor.
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Sivyer, Caleb, editor.
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Gamble, Sarah, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781782847328 |
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1782847324 |
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9781782847076 |
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1782847073 |
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