Angela Carter: New Critical Readings (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Andermahr, Sonya; Phillips, Lawrence

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441141118
• Artikelnr.: 39539302

Autorenporträt

Sonya Andermahr is Reader in English at the University of Northampton, UK. Lawrence Phillips is Professor in English and Cultural Criticism at the University of Northampton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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:
Philosophies 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

Rezensionen

Ultimately, the collection is a significant contribution to a growing body of Carter scholarship, which will redirect readers' thinking about this extraordinary writer. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers and writers alike. D.W. Madden, California State University, Sacramento CHOICE