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• The Author: Postmodernism’s Stock Character

  Editors:Paul Franssen and Ton HoenselaarsFrom: The Author as Character: Representing Historical Writers in Western Literature

  19995,398 words Critical essay [(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Fokkema situates Flaubert’s Parrot and several other postmodernist works within the context of Roland Barthes’s essay “The Death of the Author” (1967).] There are brief and...

• Angela Carter's Fetishism

  From: Textual Practice

  Winter 19957,036 words Critical essay [(essay date winter 1995) In the following essay, Britzolakis examines Carter's fascination with the performance, or spectacle, of femininity.] Like so many girls, I passionately wanted to be an actress when I was in...

• Black Woman, White Poet: Exile and Exploitation in Baudelaire's Jeanne Duval Poems

  From: The French Review

  Dec. 19774,614 words Critical essay [(essay date December 1977) In the following essay, Ahearn traces Charles Baudelaire's treatment of exile in his poetry, particularly in works inspired by his lover, Jeanne Duval.] The satisfactions afforded by poetry...

• Sex and the City?: Ecofeminism and the Urban Experience in Angela Carter, Anne Enright, and Bernardine Evaristo

  Editor:Laurenz VolkmannFrom: Local Natures, Global Responsibilities: Ecocritical Perspectives on the New English Literatures

  20107,071 words Critical essay [(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Gruss discusses Angela Carter’s short story “Black Venus” (1985), Anne Enright’s novel The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002), and Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe. Gruss argues that...