This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories. Examining topics as diverse as theatrical adaptations of Carter's novels, her 'posthuman politics', and the inspiration of her work for contemporary writers, the essays in this collection demonstrate Carter's continuing relevance into the twenty-first century. This volume will appeal both to scholars and students of contemporary women's writing, British Fiction, critical theory, reception studies, and gender studies.…mehr
This book explores Angela Carter's creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories. Examining topics as diverse as theatrical adaptations of Carter's novels, her 'posthuman politics', and the inspiration of her work for contemporary writers, the essays in this collection demonstrate Carter's continuing relevance into the twenty-first century. This volume will appeal both to scholars and students of contemporary women's writing, British Fiction, critical theory, reception studies, and gender studies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sarah Gamble is Associate Professor in English with Gender at Swansea University, UK. Anna Watz is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden.
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List of Contributors List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword: In the Company of Animals Samantha Sweeting Independent Scholar UK Introduction Sarah Gamble Swansea University UK and Anna Watz Uppsala University Sweden Section One: Contemporary Theories and Methodologies 1. Flaunting the Signifier: Angela Carter's Love and Ordinary Language Philosophy Maggie Tonkin University of Adelaide Australia 2.. 'Now You Are at the Place of Annihilation': Angela Carter's Posthuman Politics Hope Jennings Wright State University USA 3.. Wounded Flesh: Angela Carter Rikki Ducornet and the Politics of Vulnerability: A Research-Creation Essay Michelle Ryan Université d'Angers France Section Two: Re-Visioning 4. Visuality Gender and Power: Exploring the Female Artist-Performer in Selected Works by Angela Carter Caleb Ferrari University of the West of England UK 5. Shadow Dance's 'Extreme Eclecticism' - Magic-Realist Painting in the Carterian Tradition Felicity Gee The University of Exeter UK 6. 'Big Ben Had Once Again Struck Midnight': Neo-Victorian and SF Temporalities in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus Rosalind Crocker University of Sheffield UK Section Three: Adaptations and Legacies 7. Our Sisters Our Shelves: Cultural Work as Sistership Work and 'Fairy God-Mother' Carter Sarah Featonby Loughborough University UK 8. Hybrid Forms: Nights at the Circus and Adaptation Frances Babbage University of Sheffield UK 9. 'Nothing Sacred': Angela Carter's Iconoclasm Place-Making and Memorialization Charlotte Crofts University of the West of England UK and Marie Mulvey-Roberts University of the West of England UK 10 Carterian Wine in New Bottles: An Interview with Four Women Writers Intan Paramaditha Macquarie University Australia Sofia Samatar James Madison University USA Veronica Schanoes City University of New York USA Marina Warner Birkbeck College UK and Cristina Bacchilega University of Hawai'i-Manoa USA.
List of Contributors List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword: In the Company of Animals Samantha Sweeting Independent Scholar UK Introduction Sarah Gamble Swansea University UK and Anna Watz Uppsala University Sweden Section One: Contemporary Theories and Methodologies 1. Flaunting the Signifier: Angela Carter's Love and Ordinary Language Philosophy Maggie Tonkin University of Adelaide Australia 2.. 'Now You Are at the Place of Annihilation': Angela Carter's Posthuman Politics Hope Jennings Wright State University USA 3.. Wounded Flesh: Angela Carter Rikki Ducornet and the Politics of Vulnerability: A Research-Creation Essay Michelle Ryan Université d'Angers France Section Two: Re-Visioning 4. Visuality Gender and Power: Exploring the Female Artist-Performer in Selected Works by Angela Carter Caleb Ferrari University of the West of England UK 5. Shadow Dance's 'Extreme Eclecticism' - Magic-Realist Painting in the Carterian Tradition Felicity Gee The University of Exeter UK 6. 'Big Ben Had Once Again Struck Midnight': Neo-Victorian and SF Temporalities in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus Rosalind Crocker University of Sheffield UK Section Three: Adaptations and Legacies 7. Our Sisters Our Shelves: Cultural Work as Sistership Work and 'Fairy God-Mother' Carter Sarah Featonby Loughborough University UK 8. Hybrid Forms: Nights at the Circus and Adaptation Frances Babbage University of Sheffield UK 9. 'Nothing Sacred': Angela Carter's Iconoclasm Place-Making and Memorialization Charlotte Crofts University of the West of England UK and Marie Mulvey-Roberts University of the West of England UK 10 Carterian Wine in New Bottles: An Interview with Four Women Writers Intan Paramaditha Macquarie University Australia Sofia Samatar James Madison University USA Veronica Schanoes City University of New York USA Marina Warner Birkbeck College UK and Cristina Bacchilega University of Hawai'i-Manoa USA.
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