Body Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter : Writing From a Corporeagraphic Point of View

This study fills a major gap of Angela Carter's reception and enters into dialogue with current post-semiotical theories of the embodied subject by virtue of focusing on the dynamics of the meaning-in-process concomitant with the subject-in-process and the body-in-process. Through a corporeal narratological method -a close-reading interfacing of the semioticized body in the text and of the somatized text on the body-- the analysis deciphers how the ideologically disciplined, normativized-neutralized cultural body and its repressed yet haunting transgressive, corporeal, material reality are de composed by the Carterian fiction's destabilizing discursive subversions and vibrations surfacing in narrative blind-spots, overwritings, textual ruptures or rhetorical manoeuvres. This study fills a major gap of Carter's reception and enters into dialogue with current post-semiotical theories of the embodied subject by virtue of focusing on the dynamics of the meaning-in-process concomitant with the subject-in-process (Kristeva 1985) and the body-in-process. Through a corporeal narratological method—a close-reading interfacing of semioticized bodies in the text and of the somatized text on the body—I decipher how the ideologically disciplined, normativized-neutralized, ‘cultural'body and its repressed yet haunting transgressive, corporeal, material ‘reality'(are) (de)compose(d by) the Carterian fiction's destabilizing discursive subversions and vibrations surfacing in narrative blind-spots, overwritings, textual ruptures or rhetorical manoeuvres. This study fills a major gap of Carter's reception and enters into dialogue with current post-semiotical theories of the embodied subject by virtue of focusing on the dynamics of the meaning-in-process concomitant with the subject-in-process (Kristeva 1985) and the body-in-process. Through a corporeal narratological method-a close-reading interfacing of semioticized bodies in the text and of the somatized text on the body--I decipher how the ideologically disciplined, normativized-neutralized cultural body and its repressed yet haunting transgressive, corporeal, material reality are de composed by the Carterian fiction's destabilizing discursive subversions and vibrations surfacing in narrative blind-spots, overwriting, textual ruptures or rhetorical manoeuvres. Anna Kerchy ; With A Foreword By Sabine Coelsch-foisner. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [325]-348) And Index.