Synopses & Reviews
Focusing on questions of intertextuality, authorship and representation, Re-visiting Angela Carteroffers a re-examination of one of the twentieth century's most important British writers. While the introductory essay theorizes the politics of Carter's writing, the individual chapters re-visit her relationship to key literary and cultural influences (e.g. Shakespeare, de Sade, the Gothic, Japan) and illuminate neglected ones (e.g. Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Proust, Charles Dickens, surrealism). This provocative and timely collection both offers new readings of Carter's opus, and contributes to contemporary critical debates concerning gender, postmodernism and intertextual theory.
Synopsis
Focusing on questions of intertextuality, authorship and representation, this book offers a re-examination of one of the twentieth century's most important British writers. A provocative collection both offers new readings of Carter's opus, and contributes to contemporary critical debates concerning gender, postmodernism and intertextual theory.
Synopsis
Focusing on questions of intertextuality, authorship and representation, this book offers a re-examination of one of the twentieth century's most important British writers.
Table of Contents
Foreword--J.Pearson * Introduction: Angela Carter and the Politics of Intertextuality--R.Munford * Convulsive Beauty and Compulsive Desire: The Surrealist Pattern of Shadow Dance--A.Watz Fruchart * Albertine/a the Ambiguous: Angela Carter's Reconfiguration of Proust's Modernist Muse--M.Tonkin * Something Sacred: Angela Carter, Jean-Luc Godard and the Sixties--S.Gamble * 'The Other of the Other': Angela Carter's 'New-Fangled' Orientalism--C.Crofts * Bubblegum and Revolution: Angela Carter's Hybrid Shakespeare--J.Sanders * 'The Margins of the Imaginative Life': The Abject and the Grotesque in Angela Carter and Jonathan Swift--A.Hunt * 'Circles of Stage Fire': Angela Carter, Charles Dickens and Heteroglossia in the English Comic Novel--R.Duggan * Behind Locked Doors: Angela Carter and the Influence of Edgar Allan Poe-- G.Wisker * Index