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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: magna cum laudae, course: English Literature, Film Studies, language: English, abstract: Angela Carter's work is a collage of discourses and genres tackling such issues as identity construction, marginality, myth as foundation of ideology, fluidity of boundaries. Her playful intertextual allusions to literature, psychology, politics and popular culture are infused with irony and wit, and the challenge of finding a critical framework complex and accurate enough by which to study her work has...

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...

The concept of identity lies at the core of popular and academic research in a wide array of disciplines in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities. It is no surprise, therefore, that the cultural and historical construction of identity has been the focus of academic research, reflected in students' research papers as well. The contributions selected in the present volume mirror this line of research while approaching social, cultural, and personal identity as a strong motivational trigger for dramatic change.