Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics
A Union of Contraries
Marie Mulvey-Roberts editor Charlotte Crofts editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:10th Feb '22
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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 *
ISBN: 9781350182721
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 567g
280 pages