Stoddart Helen - Angela Carter's Nights At The Circus A Routledge Study Guide - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A highly original and influential work of modern British literature Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel which has attracted much critical attention from a range of perspectives including poststructuralism gender studies postmodernism and psychoanalysis. This guide to Angela Carter's complex novel presents: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Nights at the Circus a critical history surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new critical essays on the Nights at the Circus by Heather Johnson Jeannette Baxter Sarah Sceats and Helen Stoddart providing a variety of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross - references between sections of the guide in order to suggest links between texts contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Nights at the Circus and seeking not only a guide to the novel but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Carter's text.
Title: Angela Carter's Nights At The Circus A Routledge Study Guide
Author(s): Stoddart Helen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415350129
Pages: 152 Pages
Publication Date: 3/31/2007
Series: Routledge Guides to Literature
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers