Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics
A Union of Contraries
Marie Mulvey-Roberts editor Charlotte Crofts editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:27th Jul '23
Should be back in stock very soon
This book critically explores Angela Carter’s legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship.
Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship. It gives new insights into Carter’s pyrotechnic creativity and pays tribute to her incendiary imagination in a reappraisal of Angela Carter’s work, her influences and influence. Drawing attention to the highly constructed artifice of Angela Carter’s work, it brings to the fore her lesser-known collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces to reposition her as more than just the author of The Bloody Chamber. On the way, it also explores the impact of her experiences living in Japan, in the light of Edmund Gordon’s 2016 biography and Natsumi Ikoma’s translation of Sozo Araki’s Japanese memoirs of Carter.
The essays are uniformly serious, well researched, clearly written, and impressively innovative. Including 15 illustrations, this book is for those interested in feminism, fairy tales, and, of course, literary theory and women writers. * CHOICE *
Discussing a wide range of Carter’s fiction, this book explores how cross-cultural semiotics, musicality, visual critique, and sensory materiality animate Carter’s pyrotechnic prose. Along with new perspectives on familiar topics, it features exciting studies of folksong, opera, food, and fashion as they inform the poetics of specific Carterian works. * Cristina Bacchilega, Professor Emerita of English, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa, USA *
These essays multiply Carter’s creative bursts of “flower fire,” spreading out from a core of key scholars in a rigorous, yet also powerfully intuitive lighting up of new inroads into her conceptually elusive aesthetics. * Contemporary Women’s Writing *
This truly pyrotechnic book brings together various qualities of Angela Carter’s fiction, exploring its musicality, materiality, performativity, and its visual aspects in a firework-like explosion, and showcasing the intricate web of references, influences and intertexts hidden in her fiction. Assembling chapters by scholars of different disciplines from all over the world, this collection provides new and insightful ways of reading Carter that will undoubtedly interest both her longtime fans and readers who have only just discovered her. * Gramarye *
ISBN: 9781350182868
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280 pages