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From: Angela Carter[(essay date 1998) In the following excerpt, Peach examines similarities between The Magic Toyshop and Heroes and Villains.] I As I pointed out at the beginning of the previous chapter, The Magic Toyshop (1967) and...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(interview date fall 1988) In the following interview, which was conducted in New York City in 1988, Carter discusses her thoughts on myth, narrative, and modern literary theory.] Crammed in with all the other gear...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersBy the time of her sadly premature death Angela Carter had already become a favourite contemporary object of literary study in British schools and universities, reflecting the fact that she warrants study under many...
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From: Ariel[(essay date July 2000) In the following essay, Parker interprets Carter's literature of consumption as a rebellion against patriarchy.] A great writer and a great critic, V. S. Pritchett, used to say that he swallowed...
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From: Women's Studies[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Wyatt argues that Carter rewrites Freud's theories on female sexuality in The Magic Toyshop,The Passion of New Eve, and "Peter and the Wolf."] In an essay on life in the '60s,...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Michael Frayn is not an easy writer to categorize. The Tin Men is obviously not SF but witty comedy, school of Waugh; on the other hand, it obviously is SF, as it purports to be written by a computer and satirizes men...
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From: Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory[(essay date July 2000) In the following essay, Pollock discusses Carter's representation of animals in her works.] When she died in 1992, Angela Carter's close friend Salman Rushdie wrote that "English literature has...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Angela Carter stories appear frequently in anthologies. She describes herself as a Gothic writer; in her fondness for decadent opulence and squalor she is more like a stylish Moorcock, with greater charm and humour and...
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From:Gothic Studies (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt is in the course of being 'very irritated at the Gothic tag' that reviewers had applied to the three books she had previously published, that Angela Carter decided to show them 'what a Gothic novel really was'. (1)...
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From:The AnaChronisTPeer-ReviewedThis paper shows how Carter revitalizes the once-popular genre of catastrophic fiction. First I briefly characterize this genre and place Heroes and Villains in its context. Then I discuss decay and entropy depicted in...
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From:Utopian Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne of Angela Carter's most misunderstood texts,(1) Heroes and Villains (1969) is by the author's own admission an important novel, dealing with myth making in the Barthesian sense of culturally constructed collective...