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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Heterotopia in Angela Carter's Fiction; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; 1. CONVERGING ECHOES; 1.1. INTRODUCING ANGELA CARTER; 1.2. DEFINING HETEROTOPIA; 2. HETEROTOPIAN ZONES- INNER DEPTHS OF OUTER SPACES; 2. 1. DISMANTLING CATACOMBS; 2. 2. MAZES OF THE OUTSIDE; 3. HETEROTOPIA -- REACHING FOR THE OTHER; 3.1. DUPLICITOUS DOLLS; 3.2. INNOCENT PREDATORS; 3.3. CANNIBALS; 3.4. DESIRED OTHERS; 4. HETEROTOPIA -- DYNAMICS OF PERFORMANCE; 4.1. SCENES OF DISSEMBLANCE; 4.2. TWISTS OF PASSION; 4.3. SONGS AND DANCES; 5. HETEROTOPIA -- THE WARP AND WEFT OF STORYTELLING |
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5.1. THE 'CONFIDENCE TRICK'5.2. EMBROIDERING GENEALOGIES; 5.3. CINEMATIC SPINNERS; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
Angela Carter's work is a collage of discourses and genres. The challenge of finding a critical framework, complex and accurate enough to classify her work, has remained. The spectacular and the pragmatic threads of her texts, framed by extreme seriousness and witty humour are unravelled with the help of a different metaphor, denoting enigmatic spaces, conterdiscourses, borders of otherness - heterotopia. Five novels out of nine, five short stories out of thirty-five, as well as Carter's two film adaptations are filtered through a term extricated from its medical and geographical roots, which. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy. |
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Place (Philosophy) -- Fiction.
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Place (Philosophy) |
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Print version: Filimon, Eliza Claudia. Heterotopia in Angela Carter's fiction : worlds in collision. Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, ©2014 329 pages 9783954891771 |
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9783954896776 (electronic book) |
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395489677X (electronic book) |
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9783954891771 |
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