BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "Nights at the Circus"

 

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

Print-Friendly
About 193 pages (57,886 words) in 6 products

"Nights at the Circus" Search Results
Contents:
Summaries and Analysis


Products for Teachers
Nights at the Circus Lesson Plan
36,267 words, approx. 121 pages
A complete lesson plan by BookRags. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.


Ask any question on Nights at the Circus and get it answered FAST!
Answer questions in BookRags Q&A and earn points toward
discounted or even FREE Study Guides and other BookRags products!
Learn more about BookRags Q&A
Author Biography

Name: Angela (Olive) Carter
Variant Name: Angela (Olive) Carter, Angela Olive Carter, Angela Olive Stalker
Birth Date: May 7, 1940
Death Date: February 16, 1992
Nationality: British
Gender: Female

summary from source:
Biography of Angela (Olive) Carter
8437 words, approx. 28.1 pages
Angela Carter's fantastic fiction is noteworthy for its stylistic excellence, its treatment of feminist themes, and its reliance on and reaction to motion-picture, fairy-tale, folklore, gothic, and science-fiction sources. Despite the fact that her posta...
summary from source:
Biography of Angela (Olive) Carter
6205 words, approx. 20.7 pages
During the inventive last ten years of her life—when she produced two of the most festive and disturbing novels of the last years of the century, Nights at the Circus (1984) and Wise Children (1991)—Angela Carter also reinvented herself. She to...
summary from source:
Biography of Angela (Olive) Carter
4398 words, approx. 14.7 pages
Angela Carter's fiction poses precisely the question of what is central, what eccentric in contemporary British writing. "We live in Gothic times," she wrote in an afterword to her 1974 collection of tales, Fireworks; and all her work reflects that perce...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
Nights at the Circus Summary
6,742 words, approx. 23 pages
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter Nights at the Circus is the eighth of nine novels written by Angela Carter (1940- 92) before she died of cancer at the age of 51, in her literary prime. Raised in Yorkshire and London by middle-class parents, Carter...
summary from source:
Nights at the Circus Information
5,046 words, approx. 17 pages
Nights at the Circus is a novel by Angela Carter, first published in 1984 and that year's winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The novel focuses on the life and exploits of its main female protagonist, Sophie Fevvers. She is an...


News and Journals
summary from source:

The Sunday Telegraph London
Nights at the Circus
02/05/2006: 478 words, approx. 2 pages
THEATRE 2 With bold sleight of hand Kneehigh Theatre raises the shimmering gold-dust, sawdust world of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus from the floorboards of the Lyric, Hammersmith. For the first half of this production by their artistic director, Emma Rice, I...
summary from source:

Journal of College Science Teaching
A night at the circus.(Editorial)
07/01/2007: 1,295 words, approx. 4 pages
When I was a little girl, my parents would load up the car on a summer night and take us to the Shrine Circus. I loved the sights and the smells and especially the tastes--hot dogs smothered in sweet ketchup and sticky, magical...
 


Nights at the Circus Study Pack

Get the complete Nights at the Circus Study Pack, which includes everything but the lesson plans listed on this page. Approximately 193 pages (at 300 words per page) in 6 products. (Download a sample literature guide)

 Please Note: Study Pack does not include teacher lesson plans, puzzle packs, or any HighBeam content.

This Study Pack Contains:
Complete Literature Study Guide
3 Biographies
2 Encyclopedia Articles
Multiple Formats Available:

· online web format
· "print-friendly" format
· downloadable PDF format
· downloadable Word/RTF format
Available Immediately Online
 

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

Print-Friendly
About 193 pages (57,886 words) in 6 products




Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy |