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Title Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Theoretical Background for Body-Texts; 1.1. The Semioticization of the Body and the Somatization of the Text in Carter; 1.2. Carter's Grotesque Bodies: Freaks, Ethics and Fun; 1.3. Corporeagraphic Metafiction; 1.4. Autobiografiction: Re-membering the Body and (Re)Incarnating Identity; Part 2. Narrating the Nervous, Bulimic Body-Text. Grotesque Self-(De)composition in The Passion of New Eve; 2.1. A Confusing Space of Transformation; 2.2. A "Male Impersonator's" Writing. |
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2.3. A "Feminist Tract About the Social Creation of Femininity"2.4. A Post-Operative Transsexual Autobiography; 2.5. A Pathological Polyphony: Semioticizing Female Body Dysmorphia; 2.6. Shattering the Looking Glass; Part 3. Corporeal and Textual Performance as Comic Confidence Trick in Nights at the Circus; 3.1. Grotesque Bodies and Carnivalesque Discourses; 3.2. Parodic Bodily Performances, Spectacular Gender Trouble; 3.3. The Tender Irony and Sisterly Burlesque of Textual Performance; 3.4. A Narrative of Laughter and Laughing Narratives. |
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Part 4. Story-telling as Flirtation. Freak Bodies' and Twinned Selves' Vital-Fatal Seductions in Wise Children4.1. Auto-Portraits of a Seductress: (Un)making the Femme Vitale; 4.2. Cosmetic Self-Stylization: Flirting with Signs of Femininity; 4.3. Making Up Our-Selves: Cosmetic Reflections, Communal Identity, and the Ethics of Seduction; 4.4. Spec(tac)ular Seductions and Eyeing Enchantresses; 4.5. The Art of Flirtation: The Allumeuse Body; 4.6. Narrative as Seduction, Story-telling as Flirtation; 4.7. Flirting with the Father, the Bard, and the Empire. |
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4.8. Bifocal Reconsiderations of the Alluring Names of the Authoress4.9. Narrative Slips: Gaping Garments and Feminist Epistemology; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
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This study fills a major gap of Carter's reception and enters into dialogue with current post-semiotical theories of the embodied subject by virtue of focusing on the dynamics of the meaning-in-process concomitant with the subject-in-process (Kristeva 1985) and the body-in-process. Through a corporeal narratological method--a close-reading interfacing of semioticized bodies in the text and of the somatized text on the body--I decipher how the ideologically disciplined, normativized-neutralized, 'cultural' body and its repressed yet haunting transgressive, corporeal, material 'reality' (are) (de). |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-348) and index. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Carter, Angela, 1940-1992. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 -- Characters -- Women.
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Carter, Angela, 1940-1992. Passion of new Eve.
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Carter, Angela, 1940-1992. Nights at the circus.
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Carter, Angela, 1940-1992. Wise children.
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Carter, Angela. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Grotesque in literature.
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Grotesque in literature. |
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Femininity in literature.
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Femininity in literature. |
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Feminism in literature.
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Feminism in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Kérchy, Anna. Body Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter : Writing from a Corporeagraphic Point of View. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2008 9780773448926 |
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9780773411609 (electronic book) |
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0773411607 (electronic book) |
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9780773448926 |
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0773448926 |
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