Living with Disbelief in the Fictions of Angela Carter
Jennifer Gustar
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This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most important
English feminist writers of the twentieth century: Angela Carter.
Salman Rushdie has said that Carter’s novels “are like
nobody else’s”; the aim of the work is to explore this
singularity by discussing the challenge and richness of her metaphorical
style, and by elucidating her uses of intertextuality and theory
in terms that are accessible. … Rather than focusing on traditional
notions of development as a writer, Living with Disbelief in
the Fictions of Angela Carter explores the thematic and structural
elements that circulate within Carter’s considerable oeuvre,
thereby presenting an imaginative integration of her fiction and
non-fiction. Subjects addressed include social fictions, carnivale,
gendered subjectivities, feminist polemic, contemporary theory,
and narrative’s complicity with myth. Particular attention
is paid to the motifs of the “confidence trick” and
the “lucid game”.
