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Overview

A diverse collection of essays, artwork, interviews, and fiction on Angela Carter.

Angela Carter (1940-1992) is widely known for her literary fairy tales, particularly those appearing in The Bloody Chamber. Her stylishly creative appropriation and adaptation of fairy-tale patterns, motifs, and content are evident not only her individual tales written for adults but throughout her novels and other fiction.

Editors Danielle M. Roemer and Cristina Bacchilega together with the contributors to this volume investigate Carter’s approaches to the fair-tale genre. They explore various facets of Carter’s work and life and open new avenues for further research. Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale is a diverse collection of scholarly essays, fiction, personal reminiscence, and interviews from an international group of scholars, artists, and novelists. Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale will be of interest to those pursuing research in contemporary literature, folklore, and women’s studies. It will also serve as a useful reference point for other readers who wish to learn more about the fairy tales written by this dynamic author.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814329054
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 01/01/2001
Series: Marvels and Tales Special Issues Series , #12
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Cristina Bacchilega is an associate professor of English at University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa.

Danielle M. Roemer is an associate professor of literature at Northern Kentucky University.

Table of Contents

Introduction7
Remembering Angela Carter26
Angela Carter and the Literary Marchen: A Review Essay30
Addendum59
Angela Carter: The Fairy Tale65
The Woman in Process in Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber"83
Initiation and Disobedience: Liminal Experience in Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber"94
The Contextualization of the Marquis in Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber"107
The Logic of the Same and Differance: "The Courtship of Mr Lyon"128
Teaching Improprieties: The Bloody Chamber and the Reverent Classroom145
Crossing Boundaries with Wise Girls: Angela Carter's Fairy Tales for Children159
The Hoffman(n) Effect and the Sleeping Prince: Fairy Tales in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman167
Desire and the Female Grotesque in Angela Carter's "Peter and the Wolf"187
Andrew Borden's Little Girl: Fairy-Tale Fragments in Angela Carter's "The Fall River Axe Murders" and "Lizzie's Tiger"204
In the Eye of the Fairy Tale: Corinna Sargood and David Wheatley Talk about Working with Angela Carter225
Entering Ghost Town242
Ballerina: The Belled Girl Sends a Tape to an Impresario250
Contributors258
Index262
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