Space, Mirrors, Subjectivity in Angela Carter's Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781636670119 / Angielski

Jiang Xiaobo

Opis

This book discusses the fictional works of Angela Carter, who is known for her daring, disturbing, excessive style, and her efforts to destroy every social norm. It explores Carter's attempts to criticize, resist and rewrite hierarchical gendered discourse by analyzing it from the perspectives of confining space, specular space and bodily space.

Spis treści

Introduction - Confining Space: Space as Palimpsest of Power - Specular Space: Mirror as Façade and through the Looking Glass - Bodily Space: From Puppet to Flux Identity of Becoming - Conclusion.

O autorze

Xiaobo Jiang earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University. She is currently teaching at Beijing International Studies University. Among her major interests are twentieth-century British novels and literary theories.