Angela Carter and the Literary Märchen : A Review Essay
1998; Wayne State University Press; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1536-1802
Autores Tópico(s)Medieval Literature and History
ResumoIt is perhaps fitting, given Angela Carter's interest in all aspects of folklore, that work has itself become subject of a modern legend, albeit one whose truth is very much ascertainable. This is legend of effect, identified by The British Academy Humanities Research Board, which distributes postgraduate studentships. Lorna Sage states facts, as reported by President of Academy: in year 1992-93, there were more forty applicants wanting to do doctorates on Carter, making by far most fashionable twentieth-century topic ( Flesh and Mirror 3). Paul Barker, editor of magazine New Society, which published bulk of Carter's essays from late 1960s to early 1980s, recounts a more detailed version, given at an academic conference devoted to Carter's work: Academy received [f]orty proposals for doctorates on writing in 1992-93 . . . more for entire eighteenth century.1 Barker thus nominates Carter as the most read contemporary author on English university campuses (14), an assumption made in similar fashion by Jan Dalley, who, after rehearsing facts, canonizes St Angela of Campus (29); and finally, in Tom Shippey's further expanded version, we have makings of a genuinely legendary aura: more English students are writing theses on Carter than on any author or area from anywhere in seventeenth or eighteenth century; or so it is said. Like Barker and Dalley, Shippey can thus extrapolate: postmodernism wouldn't make sense without her (20).
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