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1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents Page; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; New Critical Readings; Genre and the Canon; Philosophies; Mythologies; Works Cited; Part One: Genre and the Canon; Chapter 2: Contemporary Women's Writing: Carter's Literary Legacy; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3:'Isn't it Every Girl's Dream to be Married in White?': Angela Carter's Bridal Gothic; Works Cited; Chapter 4:Between the Paws of the Tender Wolf: Authorship, Adaptation and Audience; Notes; Works Cited |
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Chapter 5:Angela Carter's Excessive Stagings of the Canon: Psychoanalytic Closets, Hermaphroditic Dreams and Jacobean WesternsHyperbolic Psychoanalysis: 'The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe'; Soggy Fairies: 'Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night's Dream'; From the Margins of the Canon: 'John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore'; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 6:The Moral Right of Food: Angela Carter's 'Food Fetishes'1; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7: The Alchemy of Reading in Angela Carter's 'Alice in Prague or The Curious Room'; Notes; Works Cited |
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Chapter 8:'Cradling an Axe Like a Baby': Angela Carter's LuluMine Özyurt Kılıç; Notes; Works Cited; Part Two: Philosophies; Chapter 9: Sex, Violence and Ethics -- Reassessing Carter's 'Moral' Relativism; Works Cited; Chapter 10: Angela Carter, Naturalist; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 11: The Surrealist Uncanny in Shadow Dance; Uncanny Returns; Sexual/Textual Violence; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 12: The Art of Speculation: Allegory and Parody as Critical Reading Strategies in The Passion of New Eve; Allegorically Speaking; 'What if Woman Really was a Castrated Man?'; Violent Games |
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Tracing Male DesireNotes; Works Cited; Chapter 13: Blending the Pre-Raphaelite with the Surreal in Angela Carter's Shadow Dance (1966) and Love (1971); Shadow Dance and the Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetic; Love and John Everett Millais; Towards a Surrealist Ophelia; Works Cited; Part Three: Mythologies; Chapter 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'; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 15: 'Ambulant Fetish': The Exotic Woman in 'Black Venus' and 'Master'; Exotic Dancer; Notes; Works Cited |
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Chapter 16: Seeing the City, Reading the City, Mapping the City: Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop and the SixtiesWorks Cited; Chapter 17: Through the Looking Glass: Playing with Schizophrenia and Surrealism in Shadow Dance; Playing with Neurotic Symptoms and Schizophrenia; Through the Looking Glass: A Surrealist Dream World; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 fast |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Phillips, Lawrence
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| ISBN |
9781441141118 |
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1441141111 |
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