Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus A Routledge Study Guide

Name: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus A Routledge Study Guide
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ISBN: 9780415350112

ISBN-10: 0415350115

ISBN-13: 9780415350112

Edition: 2007

Authors: Helen Stoddart

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Presenting an introduction to Angela Carter's 'Nights At The Circus', this title is a key text for courses on feminist literature or women's writing, and also for courses on British fiction, 20th century writing or magic realism.

Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 154
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.78" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Notes and references


Introduction



Text and contexts


Angela Carter: biography and writing


Academic contexts


Internationalism


Recognition


Britain in the 1890s and the 1980s: Margaret Thatcher


Britain in the 1960s: cultural change


Literary contexts and beyond


Critical contexts


Walter Benjamin and the 'angel of history'


Michel Foucault and the panoptican


Laura Mulvey, female stars and 'to-be-looked-at-ness'


Mikhail Bakhtin: the carnivalesque and the grotesque


Postmodernism: intertextuality, bricolage and metafiction


Magical realism


Masquerade and the performative



Critical history


Reviews


Gender, feminism and the carnivalesque


Performance and masquerade


Freakery and the grotesque


History and politics


Postmodernism and history


Genre: picaresque, magic realism and Gothic



Critical readings


'Metafiction, Magical Realism and Myth'



'Performance, Identity and the Body'



'Postmodernism'



'Popular Culture, Carnival and Clowns'




Further reading and web resources


Index