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Angela Carter's Nights at the circus / Helen Stoddart

By: Stoddart, Helen [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge guides to literaturePublication details: London : Routledge 2007Description: xii, 136 pages : 23 cmISBN: 0415350123; 9780415350129Subject(s): Carter, Angela. 1940-1992 | Postmodernism (literature ) | Feminist fiction, English | Feminist fiction, English - history and criticism | Feminism in literatureDDC classification: 820.9
Contents:
Part 1 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 ; Walter Benjamin and the ‘Angel of History’ ; Michel Foucault and the Panopticon ; Laura Mulvey, Women and ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’ ; Mikhail Bakhtin: The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque ; Postmodernism: Intertextuality, Bricolage, and Metafiction ; Magical Realism ; Masquerade and the Performative -- Part 2 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 -- Part 3 Critical Readings: Metafiction, Magical Realism, and Myth by Heather Johnson -- Postmodernism, Identity and the Body by Sarah Sceats -- Postmodernism by Jeanette Baxter -- Popular Culture, Carnival and Clowns by Helen Stoddart.
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Book Book Ruskin College Library Ruskin College Library 820.9 CAR STO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R44394L0085
Book Book Ruskin College Library Ruskin College Library 820.9 CAR/ STO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R54369P0085
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-131) and index.

Part 1 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 ; Walter Benjamin and the ‘Angel of History’ ; Michel Foucault and the Panopticon ; Laura Mulvey, Women and ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’ ; Mikhail Bakhtin: The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque ; Postmodernism: Intertextuality, Bricolage, and Metafiction ; Magical Realism ; Masquerade and the Performative -- Part 2 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 -- Part 3 Critical Readings: Metafiction, Magical Realism, and Myth by Heather Johnson -- Postmodernism, Identity and the Body by Sarah Sceats -- Postmodernism by Jeanette Baxter -- Popular Culture, Carnival and Clowns by Helen Stoddart.

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