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Re-Visiting Angela Carter

Texts, Contexts, Intertexts

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  • © 2006

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  1. Rebecca Munford

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Angela Carter and the Politics of Intertextuality

    • Rebecca Munford
    Pages 1-20

  3. Convulsive Beauty and Compulsive Desire: The Surrealist Pattern of Shadow Dance

    • Anna Watz Fruchart
    Pages 21-41

  4. Something Sacred: Angela Carter, Jean-Luc Godard and the Sixties

    • Sarah Gamble
    Pages 42-63

  5. Albertine/a the Ambiguous: Angela Carter’s Reconfiguration of Marcel Proust’s Modernist Muse

    • Maggie Tonkin
    Pages 64-86

  6. ‘The Other of the Other’: Angela Carter’s ‘New-Fangled’ Orientalism

    • Charlotte Crofts
    Pages 87-109

  7. Bubblegum and Revolution: Angela Carter’s Hybrid Shakespeare

    • Julie Sanders
    Pages 110-134

  8. ‘The Margins of the Imaginative Life’: The Abject and the Grotesque in Angela Carter and Jonathan Swift

    • Anna Hunt
    Pages 135-157

  9. ‘Circles of Stage Fire’: Angela Carter, Charles Dickens and Heteroglossia in the English Comic Novel

    • Robert Duggan
    Pages 158-177

  10. Behind Locked Doors: Angela Carter, Horror and the Influence of Edgar Allan Poe

    • Gina Wisker
    Pages 178-198

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 199-207
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About this book

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.

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'Carter's writings are charged with allusions to a vast array of Western cultural texts - including literary, religious, political and philosophical writings, films, the visual arts and scientific treatises. Intertextuality is the fabric of her work. It is the principle of her attempt to demythologise and to re-imagine human relations. Munford's volume is the first to focus entirely on this key issue in Carter's work. Re-Visiting Angela Carter should assume an important place in a new wave of Carter criticism.' - Professor Aidan Day, Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark

'As the title indicates, this volume offers most to scholars already familiar with Carter. However, it will prove indispensable to postgraduate researchers and deserves to be on undergraduate reading lists. Overall, this is an impressive collection that enriches Carter criticism, often taking it in fresh directions. In case there was any doubt, this book will convince readers that revisiting Angela Carter merits more than a brief sojourn: the riches in Carter's work that are revealed here clearly warrant an extended stay.' - Emma Parker, Contemporary Women's Writing

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter, UK

    Rebecca Munford

About the editor

CHARLOTTE CROFTS Senior Lecturer in Digital Film and Video, London South Bank University, UK ROBERT DUGGAN Teaching Fellow in English, Keele University, UK ANNA WATZ FRUCHART Doctoral Student, Uppsala University, Sweden SARAH GAMBLE Senior Lecturer in English and Gender, University of Wales, UK ANNA HUNT Doctoral Student, School of English, University of Exeter, UK JACQUELINE PEARSON Professor of English Literature, University of Manchester, UK JULIE SANDERS Professor of English Literature and Drama, University of Nottingham, UK MAGGIE TONKIN Sessional Teacher, English Department, University of Adelaide, Australia GINA WISKER Professor of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

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