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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 |
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 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...
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2,674 words, approx. 9 pages
 The Bloody Chamber (or The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories) is an anthology of short fiction by Angela Carter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1979 by Vintage and won the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize. All of the stories share a...
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 Essay Grade: 75%Gothic: Provoking Unease
1,467 words, approx. 5 pages
In the Gothic genre, transgression can not only be a stimulus, but serves as an outcome to the story too. This is particularly true in Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" whereby the stories end on a highly transgressive note - a girl eating up her grandmother and inheriting all her wealth, a girl turning into a tiger, a girl strangling the Erl-king.
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