Body Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter : Writing from a Corporeagraphic Point of View

by Kerchy, Anna; Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine

• ISBN13: 9780773448926
• ISBN10: 0773448926
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Summary

This study fills a major gap in Carter scholarship by examining the interrelations of the ideological constructions and the subversive counter-performances of bodies. texts. identity and femininity-particularly in their connection with the grotesque in Carter's final novel trilogy, The Passion of New Eve (1977). Nights at the Circus (1984) and Wise Children (1992).

Author Biography

Dr. Anna Kerchy is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Institution of English and American Studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She holds a DEA in Semiology from Universite Paris 7 and a PH.D in Literature from the University of Szeged. Her research fields include gender studies, body studies, cultural and literary-theory.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Theoretical Background for Body-Texts	p. 25
Narrating the Nervous, Bulimic Body-Text Grotesque Self-(De)composltion In The Passion of New Eve	p. 95
Corporeal and Textual Performance as Comic Confidence Trick in Nighs at the Circus	p. 153
Story-telling as Flirtation. Freak Bodies' and Twinned Selves' Vital-Fatal Seductions in Wise Children	p. 215
Conclusion	p. 295
Notes	p. 309
Bibliography	p. 325
Index	p. 349
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