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Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: A Routledge Study Guide: Routledge Guides to Literature

Autor Helen Stoddart
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2007
A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much critical attention from a range of perspectives including poststructuralism, gender studies, postmodernism and psychoanalysis.
This guide to Angela Carter’s complex novel, presents:
  • an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Nights at the Circus
    a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present
  • a selection of new critical essays on the Nights at the Circus, by Heather Johnson, Jeannette Baxter, Sarah Sceats and Helen Stoddart, providing a variety of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section
  • cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
  • suggestions for further reading.
Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Nights at the Circus and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Carter’s text.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415350129
ISBN-10: 0415350123
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Guides to Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction.  Part 1: Nights at the Circus: Text and Contexts  Angela Carter: Biography and Writing.  Forms of Writing.  Academic Contexts.  Internationalism.  Recognition.  Britain: 1890s, 1960s and 1980s.  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.  History and Politics.  Postmodernism.  Genre: Picaresque and Gothic  Part 3: Critical Readings  Metafiction, Magical Realism, and Myth.  Postmodernism.  Gender, Performance, and Identity.  Popular Culture, Carnival and Clowns.  Further Reading.

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Surveying the many interpretations of this provocative text, this guide showcases a selection of new critical essays to present those beginning a detailed study of the novel, a way through the contextual and critical material that surrounds it.