Angela Carter - (1940 - 1992)
(Full name Angela Olive Carter) English novelist, short story writer, nonfiction writer, scriptwriter, and author of children's books.
Carter is best remembered fo...
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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 ...
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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 (19...
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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 sc...
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We can read Angela Carter as both entertaining and a critique of constructions and presentations of power, gender, sexuality and construction of gendered identities. First we will consider...
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The Big Bad Wolf, Prince Charming, and The Beast: many fairy tales provide images of men varying from the courageous to the very evil. Each tale encodes messages for young girls about men, marriage, o...
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Angela Carter - (1940 - 1992)
Angela (Olive) Carter
