| Description |
ix, 256 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical essays on British literature
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index. |
| Contents |
Notes from the front line / Angela Carter -- Dangers of Angela Carter / Elaine Jordan -- Angela Carter : supersessions of the masculine / David Punter -- Violence of gendering : castration images in Angela Carter's The magic toyshop, The passion of new Eve, and "Peter and the wolf" / Jean Wyatt -- Re-constructing Oedipus through "Beauty and the beast" / Sylvia Bryant -- Pornography, fairy tales, and feminism : Angel Carter's "The bloody chamber" / Robin Ann Sheets -- Isn't it romantic? Angel Carter's bloody revision of the romantic aesthetic in "The Erl-king" / Harriet Kramer Linkin -- Blonde, black and Hottentot Venus : context and critique in Angela Carter's "Black Venus" / Jill Matus -- Written on the body : the materiality of myth in Angela Carter's Heroes and villains / Joanne Gass -- Anti-hero as Oedipus : gender and the postmodern narrative [in The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman] / Sally Robinson -- Body of the city : Angela Carter's The passion of new Eve / Nicoletta Vallorani -- Feminist metafiction and androcentric reading strategies : Angela Carter's reconstructed reader in Nights at the circus / Beth A. Boehm -- Angela Carter's Nights at the circus : an engaged feminism via subversive postmodern strategies / Magali Cornier Michael -- Revamping spectacle : Angela Carter's Nights at the circus / Mary Russo. |
| Subject |
Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Tucker, Lindsey, 1936-
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| ISBN |
0783800479 (alk. paper) |
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