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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Angela Carter"”.
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Gothic times : feminism and postmodernism in the novels of Angela Carter.
… waged upon the ground of subjectivity. Angela Carter's novels offer an extended exploration of subjectivity which utilises, in many ways self consciously, the ongoing theorisation of subjectivity and related notions - notably desire, gender and power - which characterises contemporary …
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The grotesque in the works of Federico Fellini and Angela Carter
… may also be made between Federico Fellini and Angela Carter as producers of grotesque texts. The following two chapters of the thesis explore how the grotesque is used in Fellini's films (chapter two) and Carter's novels (chapter three). Carter, like Bakhtin, celebrates the grotesque as a means …
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The reappropriation of the Victorian in the novels of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter
In their novels, Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood display more influence from Victorian literature than may be immediately apparent. While they have both written historical novels that have been embraced by Neo-Victorian studies, the influence of the literature of the nineteenth century goes …
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Power and transgression: margins, crossings and monstrous women in selected works of Bharati Mukherjee and Angela Carter
… of two disparate authors, Bharati Mukherjee and Angela Carter. Despite their differences of origins, cultures and styles, both writers articulate a vision of transgressive, unruly women, often situated at society's edges, who dare to challenge boundaries and who are capable of monstrous, …
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Estructura e ideología en la obra de Ángela Carter y Rikki Ducornet. Escribir desde la posmodernidad
… in the novels of two contemporary writers, Angela Carter (1940--1992) and Rikki Ducornet (1943-- ). Both authors are interested in deconstructing the ideology of power naturalized by Western culture, by using a number of postmodernist techniques and strategies, such as intertextuality, …
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Sowing Seeds Of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use Of Fairy Tales And Folklore
… feminist fairy-tale authors like Anne Sexton and Angela Carter.</p>
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The androgynous ideal in twentieth-century feminist literature : Woolf, Carter, Winterson and Harpman
… both theory and fiction, of Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson and Jacqueline Harpman. Androgyny is an idea which is thousands of years old, and an overview of its presence in religion, mythology and psychology is included as background to its representation in the work of …
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Intersecting Axes: Narrative and Culture in Versions of the Lizzie Borden Story (A Performative Approach)
… by Paul Wendkos, and a short story by Angela Carter to argue for the theoretical, political, narratological, cultural, and interpretive benefits of approaching the relationship between texts and contexts through a uniquely contemporary concept of performativity, bringing a valuable new …
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The head knows what lies near the heart : an anatomy in stories and accompanying essay
… expectations of the female body (for example, Angela Carter in 1979 or Suniti Najomshi in 1981), the stories in this collection find a middle ground, neither re-writing fairy tales nor completely eschewing them. In my tales the body is used as a starting point; concentrating on a particular …
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LIBERTY HORSES (A NOVEL): NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS IN POSTMODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TEXTS
… as Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, Peter Ackroyd, Angela Carter and Christine Brooke-Rose. The chapter also discusses the part played by the Booker Prize in the rise in commercial popularity of these writers as well as the acceptance of postmodern writing within a wider readership. Chapter Three, …
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The feminist postmodern fantastic: sexed, gendered, and sexual identities
… Cixous, Monique Wittig, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter represent distinct and diverse, culturally specific, literary and feminist traditions, reformulating the relationship between modernism and postmodernism in different ways and with varying degrees of success. They coalesce, however, in …
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The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism
… several women theorists and writers, including Angela Carter, Judith Butler, Kathy Acker, and Luce Irigaray. This analysis centres around Lacan’s theorization of the death drive through the figure of Antigone, and while he does not describe her as the original woman masochist, I believe she is a …
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The problem of the poetic revolutionary
… subversive politics: Jean Genet, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Kathy Acker, Kathleen Mary Fallon, Kim Scott and Brian Castro. Drawing on theories of intertextuality, parody, representation, and performance from theorists such as Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Gérard Genette, Margaret A. Rose, …
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Re-situating the body : history, myth, and the contemporary women's writings in English and Japanese
… subversion. The writers analysed include Angela Carter (who lived in Japan), Margaret Atwood, Fay Weldon, Muriel Spark, Yuko Matsumoto, Rieko Matsuura, Yoriko Shono, Yumiko Kurahashi. Their work is situated in relation to earlier imaginative writing, myth, legend and examples of the Gothic …
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Reader as woman: gender and identification in novels
… female authors, Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter, to see in what ways they "talk back" to the tradition which has defined woman as other, to see in what ways, if any, they re-define the possibility of female heroism, and, finally, to consider the implications for the reader.
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The Ritualization of Violence in <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>
… objects in order to maintain control in Angela Carter’s work <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>. To show the implications of the pseudo-sacred, I will use <em>Violence and the Sacred</em> by Rene Girard that examines the way primitive cultures are able to maintain order through particular …