Angela Carter''s Nights At the Circus - A Routledge Study Guide

Informationen zum Autor Helen Stoddart is a lecturer at Keele University. She is interested in research on the circus; its history, cultural influences and implications and, most particularly, its representation in other forms such as literature and cinema. Klappentext Surveying the many interpretations of this provocative text, this guide showcases a selection of new critical essays to present those beginning a detailed study of the novel, a way through the contextual and critical material that surrounds it. Zusammenfassung Surveying the many interpretations of this provocative text, this guide showcases a selection of new critical essays to present those beginning a detailed study of the novel, a way through the contextual and critical material that surrounds it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part 1: Nights at the Circus: Text and Contexts Angela Carter: Biography and Writing. Forms of Writing. Academic Contexts. Internationalism. Recognition. Britain: 1890s, 1960s and 1980s. Literary Contexts and Beyond. Walter Benjamin and the ‘Angel of History’. Michel Foucault and the Panopticon. Laura Mulvey, Women and ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’. Mikhail Bakhtin: The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque. Postmodernism: Intertextuality, Bricolage, and Metafiction. Magical Realism. Masquerade and the Performative Part 2: Critical History Reviews. Gender, Feminism and the Carnivalesque. History and Politics. Postmodernism. Genre: Picaresque and Gothic Part 3: Critical Readings Metafiction, Magical Realism, and Myth. Postmodernism. Gender, Performance, and Identity. Popular Culture, Carnival and Clowns. Further Reading.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Stoddart, Helen (Keele University Stoddart, Stoddart Helen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2007
• EAN: 9780415350112
• ISBN: 978-0-415-35011-2
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Routledge Guides to Literature; Routledge Guides to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000