Photograph by Peter Ford © the artist’s estate The arts of Angela Carter The arts of Angela Carter also explores the importance of space and place within Carter’s writing, ranging from Bristol to Tokyo. Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol Cover: Juli Haas, Women’s Place (1994), courtesy Off-Centre Gallery, Bristol. Table of contents : Front Matter Contents List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Angela Carter’s curious rooms Intermedial synergy in Angela Carter’s short fiction Psychogeography in the curiosity cabinet: Angela Carter’s poetics of space Bloody chamber melodies: painting and music in The Bloody Chamber Angela Carter’s poetry Angela Carter’s objets trouvés in translation: from Baudelaire to Black Venus Myths, meat and American Indians: Angela Carter and Claude Lévi-Strauss Angela Carter’s ‘rigorous system of disbelief’: religion, misogyny, myth and the cult ‘Clothes are our weapons’: dandyism, fashion and subcultural style in Angela Carter’s fiction of the 1960s Desire, disgust and dead women: Angela Carter’s re-writing women’s fatal scripts from Poe and Lovecraft The ‘art of faking’: performance and puppet theatre in Angela Carter’s Japan ‘I resented it, it fascinated me’: Carter’s ambivalent cinematic fiction and the problem of proximity The rough and the holy: Angela Carter’s marionette theatre Index Citation preview

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