The Passion Of New Eve

by Angela Carter

I know nothing.

The Passion Of New Eve

Author: Angela Carter

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 0349008175

Page: 192

View: 294

I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself . . . ' New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve.

Beyond Extremes

by Stefan Glomb

In ihrem Beitrag zum vorliegenden Band " Subversive literarische Performativität :
Die narrative Inszenierung von Geschlechtsidentitäten in Angela Carters The
Passion of New Eve " bringt Nadyne Stritzke diese Überlegungen in einen ...

Beyond Extremes

Author: Stefan Glomb

Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag

ISBN: 9783823360971

Page: 398

View: 803

The Disobedient Writer

by Nancy A. Walker

ANGELA CARTER , THE PASSION OF NEW EVE If , as Zipes and others have
noted , fairy tales originally emerged not only from the socioeconomic
circumstances of the “ folk ” but simultaneously from their “ wish fulfilment and
utopian ...

The Disobedient Writer

Author: Nancy A. Walker

Publisher: University of Texas Press

ISBN: 9780292790964

Page: 205

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For centuries, women who aspired to write had to enter a largely male literary tradition that offered few, if any, literary forms in which to express their perspectives on lived experience. Since the nineteenth century, however, women writers and readers have been producing "disobedient" counter-narratives that, while clearly making reference to the original texts, overturn their basic assumptions. This book looks at both canonical and non-canonical works, over a variety of fiction and nonfiction genres, that offer counter-readings of familiar Western narratives. Nancy Walker begins by probing women's revisions of two narrative traditions pervasive in Western culture: the biblical story of Adam and Eve, and the traditional fairy tales that have served as paradigms of women's behavior and expectations. She goes on to examine the works of a wide range of writers, from contemporaries Marilynne Robinson, Ursula Le Guin, Anne Sexton, Fay Weldon, Angela Carter, and Margaret Atwood to precursors Caroline Kirkland, Fanny Fern, Mary De Morgan, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Edith Nesbit, and Evelyn Sharp.

A Passion for Difference

by Henrietta L. Moore

Angela Carter and the passion ( s ) of new Eve One very common assumption at
the present time is that there are two sexes and two genders , and that there
exists between them a set of rather obvious correspondences . The assertion that
 ...

A Passion for Difference

Author: Henrietta L. Moore

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN: 9780253209511

Page: 177

View: 224

In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender, and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human subject. She then considers why anthropologists have contributed relatively little to these debates, suggesting that this reflects the history of anthropology's conceptualization of ""persons"" or ""selves"" cross-culturally. The author also pursues a series of related themes, including the links between gender, identity, and violence; the construction of domestic space and its relationship to bodily practices and the internalization of relations of difference; and the links between the gender of the anthropologist and the writing of anthropology. By developing a specific anthropological approach to feminist post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory, Moore demonstrates anthropology's contribution to current debates in feminist theory.

The Gothic

by Fred Botting

What Carter shows, most especially in The Passion of New Eve, is that the
cinema is perhaps the optimum technological vehicle for the parading of the
phantasms of gender; it provides a set of technical and institutional structures
which, ...

The Gothic

Author: Fred Botting

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

ISBN: 9780859916196

Page: 184

View: 142

From Horace Walpole to Angela Carter and the X-Files, new and familiar texts are reassessed, and common readings of Gothic themes and critical approaches to the genre are interrogated.

Engendering Realism and Postmodernism

by Beate Neumeier

Angela Carter has taken this issue to surprising conclusions in her study The
Sadeian Woman ( 1979 ) and has maybe most spectacularly explored the
implications and the crossing of gender boundaries in her novels The Passion of
New Eve ...

Engendering Realism and Postmodernism

Author: Beate Neumeier

Publisher: Rodopi

ISBN: 9789042014374

Page: 418

View: 337

This volume assembles critical essays on, and excerpts from, works of contemporary women writers in Britain. Its focus is the interaction of aesthetic play and ethical commitment in the fictional work of women writers whose interest in testing and transgressing textual boundaries is rooted in a specific awareness of a gendered multicultural reality. This position calls for a distinctly critical impetus of their writing involving the interaction of the political and the literary as expressed in innovative combinations of realist and postmodern techniques in works by A. S. Byatt, Maureen Duffy, Zoe Fairbairns, Eva Figes, Penelope Lively, Sara Maitland, Suniti Namjoshi, Ravinder Randhawa, Joan Riley, Michele Roberts, Emma Tennant, Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson. All contributions to this volume address aspects of these writers' positions and techniques with a clear focus on their interest in transgressing boundaries of genre, gender and (post)colonial identity. The special quality of these interpretations, first given in the presence of writers at a symposium in Potsdam, derives from the creative and prosperous interactions between authors and critics. The volume concludes with excerpts from the works of the participating writers which exemplify the range of concrete concerns and technical accomplisments discussed in the essays. They are taken from fictional works by Debjani Chatterjee, Maureen Duffy, Zoe Fairbairns, Eva Figes, Sara Maitland, and Ravinder Randhawa. They also include the creative interactions of Suniti Namjoshi and Gillian Hanscombe in their joint writing and Paul Magrs' critical engagement with Sara Maitland.

Angela Carter and Surrealism

by Anna Watz

Watz’s book is an important contribution to scholarship on Angela Carter as well as to contemporary feminist debates on surrealism, and will appeal to scholars across the fields of contemporary British fiction, feminism, and literary and ...

Angela Carter and Surrealism

Author: Anna Watz

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 113496854X

Page: 202

View: 476

In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter’s previous interest in surrealism, representation, gender and desire and aided her formulation of a new surrealist-feminist aesthetic. Carter’s sustained engagement with surrealist aesthetics and politics as well as surrealist scholarship aptly demonstrates what is at stake for feminism at the intersection of avant-garde aesthetics and the representation of women and female desire. Drawing on previously unexplored archival material, such as typescripts, journals, and letters, Anna Watz’s study is the first to trace the full extent to which Carter’s writing was influenced by the surrealist movement and its critical heritage. Watz’s book is an important contribution to scholarship on Angela Carter as well as to contemporary feminist debates on surrealism, and will appeal to scholars across the fields of contemporary British fiction, feminism, and literary and visual surrealism.

The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter

by Joseph Bristow

Chapter Nine Sexual and textual aggression in The Sadeian Woman and The
Passion of New Eve Merja Makinen I In the past decade, several notable works of
feminist fiction have raised the contentious issue of female violators and sexual ...

The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter

Author: Joseph Bristow

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1317887441

Page: 240

View: 910

Drawing on many aspects of contemporary feminist theory, this lively collection of essays assesses Angela Carter's polemical fictions of desire. Carter, renowned for her irreverent wit, was one of the most gifted, subversive, and stylish British writers to emerge in the 1960s.

Cross Gendered Literary Voices

by R. Kim

'His almost vanished voice': Gendering and Transgendering Bodily Signification
and the Voice in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve Claire Westall
Introduction Angela Carteriswidely recognized forher repeated and probing
engagement ...

Cross Gendered Literary Voices

Author: R. Kim

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 113702075X

Page: 243

View: 289

This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts.

Angela Carter New Critical Readings

by Sonya Andermahr

in. The. Passion. ofNew. Eve. Kari. Jegerstedt. Recent years have witnessed a
shift in Carter criticism away from the more traditional focus on Carter's 'politics'
towards a more sustained preoccupation with her 'poetics'. This shift is an
important ...

Angela Carter New Critical Readings

Author: Sonya Andermahr

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 1441169288

Page: 214

View: 192

Covering her early poetry and journalism as well as her fictional writings, leading international scholars explore new directions in scholarship on Angela Carter.

The Arts in the 1970s

by Dr Bart Moore-Gilbert

(A similar anxiety underlies Carter's representation of the Amazon commune in
The Passion of New Eve—and Fairbairns's of Posy in Benefits.) Tennant's sense
that revolutionary feminism might ignore the potential for broader alliances is also
 ...

The Arts in the 1970s

Author: Dr Bart Moore-Gilbert

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 113485837X

Page: 324

View: 799

Were the 1970s really `the devils decade'? Images of strikes, galloping inflation, rising unemployment and bitter social divisions evoke a period of unparalleled economic decline, political confrontation and social fragmentation. But how significant were the pessimism and self-doubt of the 1970s, and what was the legacy of its cultural conflicts? Covering the entire spectrum of the arts - drama, television, film, poetry, the novel, popular music, dance, cinema and the visual arts - The Arts in the 1970s challenges received perceptions of the decade as one of cultural decline. The collection breaks new ground in providing the first detailed analysis of the cultural production of the decade as a whole, providing an invaluable resource for all those involved in cultural, media and communications studies.

Expletives Deleted

by Angela Carter

... Somerset Maugham Award), Heroes and Villains (1969), Love (1971), The
Infernal Desire Machines ofDoctor Hoffman (1972), The Passion of New Eve (
1977), Nights at the Circus (1984, James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and Wise
Children ...

Expletives Deleted

Author: Angela Carter

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 1409040771

Page: 240

View: 699

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist.This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests: the brothers Grimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizbaeth David; British writing: American writing; sexuality, from Josephine Baker to the history of the corset; and appreciations of the work of Joyce and Christina Stead.

Intimacy and Identity in the Postmodern Novel

by Emilija Dimitrijevic

The rest of Carter ' s novels tend to be classified as “ speculative fiction ' and
include Heroes and Villains ( 1969 ) , The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor
Hoffman ( 1972 ) , The Passion of New Eve ( 1977 ) , Nights at the Circus ( 1984 )
, and ...

Intimacy and Identity in the Postmodern Novel

Author: Emilija Dimitrijevic

Publisher: Peter Lang

ISBN: 9783039110315

Page: 191

View: 370

This book focuses on the themes of intimacy and identity in the contemporary novel and, in particular, in the novels of A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. Not only do the specificity of the contemporary social context and a growing awareness of the relational nature of the concepts of intimacy and identity set these novels apart from earlier writing that take these issues more for granted. Their very concern with the themes of intimacy and identity also sets them apart from much postmodernist, or mannerist, writing that chooses to cold-shoulder these arguments. The study draws on work by contemporary social theorists and philosophers, and aims to examine issues which, although central to the writing of these authors, have been neglected or treated superficially in literary criticism. Finally, it looks into the ways in which the new approaches to the question of intimacy and identity relate and contribute to contemporary debates on the postmodern novel.

Contemporary British Fiction

by Nick Bentley

However, I have chosen to focus on Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve (
1977), Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) and Nick
Hornby's Fever Pitch (1992) because together they offer a range of perspectives
and ...

Contemporary British Fiction

Author: Nick Bentley

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

ISBN: 0748630376

Page: 264

View: 660

This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture.A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes: (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, Memory and Writing, and (5) Narratives of Cultural Space.

Contemporary Feminist Utopianism

by Lucy Sargisson

Angela Carter's utopian/dystopian satire The Passion of New Eve (1982) is
representative of this move,which is discerniblein many feminist utopias:they
areopenended textsthat letgoofthe notion of perfection. Byso doing, theyescape
the ...

Contemporary Feminist Utopianism

Author: Lucy Sargisson

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 113476765X

Page: 272

View: 707

A new and challenging entry into the debates between feminism and postmodernism, Contemporary Feminist Utopianism challenges some basic preconceptions about the role of political theory today. Sargisson explores current debates within utopian studies, feminist theory and poststructuralist deconstruction. Utopian thinking is offered as a route out of the dilemma of contemporary feminism as well as a way of conceptualizing its current situation. This book provides an exploration of, and exercise in, utopian thought.

Angela Carter s Book of Fairy Tales

by Angela Carter

Angela Carter's pick of Mother Goose's feathers. 'Trumps Grimm, with a world-wide selection of savage and funny stories' Observer

Angela Carter s Book of Fairy Tales

Author: Angela Carter

Publisher: Virago Press

ISBN: 9781844081608

Page: 512

View: 211

Once upon a time fairy talesweren't meant just for children, and neither is AngelaCarter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collectioncontains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariouslyfunny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all aroundthe world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippyprincesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have prettymaids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls;enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.This fabulous celebration of strong minds, low cunning,black arts and dirty tricks could only have beencollected by the unique and much-missed Angela Carter.Illustrated throughout with original woodcuts.

Shadow Dance

by Angela Carter

Carter's heady first novel introduces one of her most enigmatic characters.

Shadow Dance

Author: Angela Carter

Publisher: Penguin Mass Market

ISBN: 9780140255249

Page: 182

View: 943

Carter's heady first novel introduces one of her most enigmatic characters. Honeybuzzard spends his nights scavenging the contents of abandoned buildings and his days seducing and tormenting lovers, enemies, and friends. He and his best friend Morris scoour the backstreets of London, leaving behind a trail of detruction in the broken hearts and dashed hopes of those they love, manipulate, and ultimately discard.

Heterotopia in Angela Carter s Fiction Worlds in Collision

by Eliza Claudia Filimon

The Passion of New Eve (1967) and Wise Children (1991) are under scrutiny in
this chapter, as illustrative of various aspects of performance, employed to
different ends. Acting becomes a socially transgressive practice (Rose, 1993) that
 ...

Heterotopia in Angela Carter s Fiction Worlds in Collision

Author: Eliza Claudia Filimon

Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)

ISBN: 395489677X

Page: 328

View: 608

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 emphasizes the ambiguity, as well as the dialogic interaction of Angela Carter’s often discordant discourses that have kept her at the top of the literary canon.