Angela Carter: Surrealist, Psychologist, Moral Pornographer

ISBN-13: 9781472469663 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 202 str.

Professor Scott Dimovitz

Opis

Contributing to the conversation regarding Angela Cartera s problematic relationship with what she viewed as the interrelated traditions of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Scott Dimovitz explores the intricate connections between Cartera s private life and her public writing. He begins with Cartera s assertion that it was through her a sexual and emotional lifea that she was radicalized, drawing extensively on the British Librarya s recently archived collection of Cartera s private papers, journals, and letters to show how that radicalization happened and what it meant both for her worldview and for her writings. Through close textual analysis and a detailed study of her papers, Dimovitz analyzes the ways in which this second-wave feminist's explorations of sexuality merged with her investigations into surrealism and psychoanalysis, an engagement that ultimately led to the explosively surreal allegories of Carter's later, more complex, and more accomplished work. His study not only offers a new way to view Cartera s oeuvre, but also makes the case for the importance of Angela Cartera s vision in understanding the transformations in feminist thinking from the postwar to the postfeminist generation."

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O autorze

Scott A. Dimovitz is Associate Professor of English at Regis University, USA.