Angela Carter: The Rational GlassThis full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work; but consistency of theme is not the same thing as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times, and concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the Medieval through de Sade to Foucault. Aidan Day describes theoretical arguments on the Enlightenment, modernity, feminism and postmodernism in a way which does not assume too much prior knowledge. Broader in its appeal than much of the specialist work written on Carter, which tends to stress special interests in fantasy, sexuality or the gothic, Day's clarity and thoroughness are refreshing in that they credit Angela Carter's fiction with the central place that it deserves. |
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Contents
Shadow Dance 1966 The Magic Toyshop 1967 | 14 |
Heroes and Villains 1969 and Love 1971 | 41 |
SEVEN | 187 |
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| Title | Angela Carter: The Rational Glass |
| Author | Aidan Day |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0719053161, 9780719053160 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures Literary Criticism / Feminist |
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