Angela Carter

by Lorna Sage

Although much of Carter's work is considered part of the contemporary canon, its true strangeness is still only partially understood. Lorna Sage argues that one key to a better understanding of Carter's writings is the extraordinary intelligence with which she read the cultural signs of our times. From structuralism and the study of folk tales in the 1960s to fairy stories, gender politics and the theoretical 'pleasure of the text', which she makes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746311451
• ISBN13: 9780746311455
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.4"