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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000214259707536

Titolo

Angela Carter / edited by Alison Easton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000

ISBN

0312231407

0333692160 (Macmillan: paperback)

0333692152 (Macmillan: hardcover)

0333693450 (series : pbk.)

0333717023 (series : cased)

Descrizione fisica

ix, 228 p. ; 23 cm.

Collana

New casebooks

Altri autori (Persone)

Easton, Alison, 1943-

Disciplina

823/.914

Soggetti

Donne nella letteratura - Inghilterra - Storia

Carter, Angela, 1940- Critica ed interpretazione

Carter, Angela, 1940- Critica ed interpretazione

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Contemporary critical essays"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Reading Angela Carter / Alison Easton -- Angela Carter's The bloody chamber and the decolonisation of feminine sexuality / Merja Makinen -- Angela Carter's The Sadeian woman : feminism as treason / Sally Keenan -- The violence of gendering : castration images in Angela Carter's The magic toyshop, The passion of new Eve, and 'Peter and the wolf' / Jean Wyatt -- History and women's time : Heroes and villains / Gerardine Meaney -- The anti-hero as Oedipus : gender and the postmodern narrative in The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman / Sally Robinson -- Textualising the double-gendered body : forms of the grotesque in The passion of new Eve / Heather Johnson -- Revamping spectacle : Angela Carter's Nights at the circus / Mary Russo -- Blonde, Black and Hottentot Venus : context and critique in Angela Carter's 'Black Venus' / Jill Matus -- Angela Carter's fetishism / Christina Britzolakis -- Seriously funny : Wise children / Kate Webb.