Essays On The Art Of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Essays On The Art Of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Lorna Sage
Edited by Lorna Sage
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 130
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781844084715
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General
Illustrations Integrated: 1, b/w painting

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Virago Press Ltd
Publication Date 6 December 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter. With a new introduction by Ali Smith. This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter. Here her fellow writers, along with an impressive company of critics, disuss the novels, stories and polemics that make her one of the most spellbinding authors of her generation. They trace out the signs of her originality, her daring and her wicked wit, as well as her charm, to produce an indispensable companion to her texts. Contributors are: Guido Almansi, Isobel Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, Elaine Jordan, Ros Kaveney, Hermione Lee, Laura Mulvey, Marc O'Day, Sue Roe, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Nicole Ward Jouve, Marina Warner and Kate Webb.

Author Biography

Lorna Sage was Dean of the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. Before she died in 2001 her memoir BAD BLOOD won the Whitbread Biography Prize. Ali Smith's most recent novel, THE ACCIDENTAL, was short listed for the Booker.