Angela Carter's pasts : allegories and intertextualities / edited by Sarah Gamble and Anna Watz.
| Other author | Gamble, Sarah, 1962- editor. |
| Other author | Watz, Anna, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword: Memoir in the shape of a moment / Rikki Ducornet -- Introduction / Sarah Gamble and Anna Watz -- Angela Carter's medieval studies / Katie Garner -- Exploring the fatal flower garden : Angela Carter's writing of the 1960s / Sarah Gamble -- 'beloved, cruel, unkind' : folk songs and sibling incest in Angela Carter's writing / Polly Paulusma -- 'We teach -- no, we make allegories, in the deepest sense' : allegorical writing, reading and violence in Angela Carter's The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman and The passion of new Eve / Marie Emilie Walz -- Angela Carter and new American spiritual apocalypse / Scott Dimovitz -- Underneath a Mishima-esque mask : Angela Carter's post-humanism and postwar Japan's empty power / Natsumi Ikoma -- 'Manifesto for year one' : revolt as metaphysical principle / Anna Watz -- 'Versed in esoteric law and the magic arts' : Angela Carter's writing and the supernatural / Miriam Wallraven -- Violence and desire from the renaissance stage to the wild west : Angela Carter and the two John Fords / Robert Duggan -- Angela Carter's tribute to Collette : from the innocent libertine to The bloody chamber and beyond / Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère -- The Firbankian Carter : the making of A self-made man / Dickon Edwards. |
| Abstract | "This book offers a fresh look at Angela Carter's critical and intertextual engagements with the past. Examining a broad range of Carter's work (novels, short stories, poetry, as well as stage plays), the essays in this collection explore a stimulating selection of topics, including folk song, medieval literature, magic realism, and the occult. Frequently drawing on newly available archival material, the volume lays out the ways in which Carter wove allusions into her own narratives, creating a lively and challenging dialogue with the cultural materials of the past and present"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Angela Carter's pasts London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 9781350343528 |
| LCCN | 2024030029 |
| ISBN | 9781350343511 |
| ISBN | 135034351X |
| ISBN | 9781350343559 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1350343552 |
| ISBN | (ePDF) |
| ISBN | (eBook) |