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Angela Carter - A Beginner's Guide gives beginning readers of Angela Carter, her students and her fans a sense of the breadth and variety, the richness of her work. Her writing is amusing, ironic and Gothic, providing a critique of the gender and power relations amongst whish we live and through which we create our identities. Winged women, music hall, werewolves, Bluebeard and his wives and Beauty and the Beast are some of the charcters, areas and tales Angela Carter explores and re-writes.
Gina Wisker's text explores how Carter:
re-writes fairytales and popular myths to explore gender relations
reveals contradictions, relations of power and gender in society, and the ways men and women are represented and construct their identities
celebrates women's energies in different moments of time
mixes rich imagery, paradox, symbols and beautifully written descriptions
works with the forms and themes of horror, science fiction, music hall, pantomine and romance to entertain and to explore ourselves and our cultures.
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- Format:Electronic book text
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication Date:28/02/2003
- ISBN:9781444158274
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Item not Available
- Format:Electronic book text
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication Date:28/02/2003
- ISBN:9781444158274
