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Moss, Betty Lee.

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Feminine desire and grotesque narrative in Angela Carter's fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Feminine desire and grotesque narrative in Angela Carter's fiction./
Author:	Moss, Betty Lee.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1997,
Description:	219 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-03, Section: A, page: 8850.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-03A.
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9724015
ISBN:	9780591328844

Feminine desire and grotesque narrative in Angela Carter's fiction.
Moss, Betty Lee.

Feminine desire and grotesque narrative in Angela Carter's fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1997 - 219 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-03, Section: A, page: 8850.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Florida, 1997.

The purpose of this study is two-fold: to demonstrate the viability and necessity of an intersection between postmodern and feminist critical discussion, and to indicate how Angela Carter's development as a novelist demonstrates one such intersection. Carter's increasing concern both with postmodern aesthetics and feminist politics propels her towards the distinctive postmodern feminist voice she achieves in her final novels, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children. This project participates in the ongoing revision of postmodernist critical paradigms by feminist (and other) scholars by exploring the role of laughter and the grotesque in Carter's corpus. It furthers the project of bringing women writers to the center of critical inquiry in order to elucidate how current postmodernist discourse excludes or distorts consideration of the feminine in its universalizing of masculine sexuality and desire. Carter retrieves the oft-neglected reconstructive strand of postmodernism that reveals itself in progression rather than dissolution, and in an ambiguity that imparts hope rather than despair. Such attention is necessary if postmodernist literary history is to be defined and enlarged as one that includes feminist writing practices and ways of knowing.

ISBN: 9780591328844Subjects--Topical Terms:

3284317
British & Irish literature.

Feminine desire and grotesque narrative in Angela Carter's fiction.
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