English Authors Series - Angela Carter (English Authors Series)

A prolific writer in many genres, Angela Carter is best known for her novels and short stories. Widely taught for their intelligence and complexity, Carter's works are equally enjoyed for their humor and vitality. Alison Lee has focused on Carter's novels in this incisive and accessible volume. Carter's writing, often deemed difficult, is examined and explained carefully and critically in a lucid, lively manner. Scenes from Carter's life as well as ideas from her nonfiction essays are woven into the analyses in order to represent the breadth of her voice and the acerbity of her wit. Angela Carter provides a text complete with chronology, notes and references, selected bibliography, and index. Booknews Lee (English, U. of Western Ontario) focuses on Carter's novels Shadow Dance, Several Perceptions, Love, The Magic Toyshop, Heroes and Villains, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, The Passion of New Eve, Nights at the Circus, and Wise Children. She weaves scenes from Carter's life as well as ideas from her nonfiction essays into her analyses in order to represent the breadth of her voice and the acerbity of her wit. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Series Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts Twaynes United States Authors, English Authors , and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volumeaddresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Each volume "A prolific writer in many genres, Angela Carter is best known for her novels and short stories. Widely taught for their intelligence and complexity, Carter's works are equally enjoyed for their humor and vitality."--BOOK JACKET. "Alison Lee has focused on Carter's novels in this incisive and accessible volume. Carter's writing, often deemed difficult, is examined and explained carefully and critically in a lucid, lively manner. Scenes from Carter's life as well as ideas from her nonfiction essays are woven into the analyses in order to represent the breadth of her voice and the acerbity of her wit."--BOOK JACKET. "Angela Carter provides a text complete with chronology, notes and references, selected bibliography, and index."--BOOK JACKET