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This book examines the connections and conversations between women
writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century.
The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women
writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the
field of contemporary women’s writing. The book looks back to the
foundations of contemporary women’s writing and also considers
how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how
writers and readers have interpreted ‘the contemporary’, a
moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of
feminist theory and criticism of the late twentieth century.
Writing about the relationships between women’s writings is an
always-vital, ongoing political project with a rich history. These
essays argue that establishing and defining the contemporary is,
for women writers, another ongoing political project to which this
collection of essays aims, in part, to contribute.
This book unearths Carter's deconstruction of the male-dominated
discipline of Western thought. Revealing the extensive
philosophical research that underpins Carter's intertextual work,
this book offers new readings of her fiction in relation to a range
of philosophical texts and ideas. By re-examining Carter's writing
with reference to the archived collection of her notes that has
recently become available at the British Library, Angela Carter and
Western Philosophy puts forward new interpretations of Carter's
writing practices. With chapters examining her allusions to Plato,
Hobbes and Rousseau, Descartes, Locke and Hume, Wittgenstein and
Ryle, as well as Kant and Sade, this book illuminates Carter's
engagement with different areas of Western thought, and discusses
how this shapes her portrayal of reality, identity, civilisation,
and morality. Angela Carter and Western Philosophy will be of
interest to researchers, lecturers, and students working on
contemporary women's writing, philosophy and literature, and
intertextual literary practices.
This book unearths Carter's deconstruction of the male-dominated
discipline of Western thought. Revealing the extensive
philosophical research that underpins Carter's intertextual work,
this book offers new readings of her fiction in relation to a range
of philosophical texts and ideas. By re-examining Carter's writing
with reference to the archived collection of her notes that has
recently become available at the British Library, Angela Carter and
Western Philosophy puts forward new interpretations of Carter's
writing practices. With chapters examining her allusions to Plato,
Hobbes and Rousseau, Descartes, Locke and Hume, Wittgenstein and
Ryle, as well as Kant and Sade, this book illuminates Carter's
engagement with different areas of Western thought, and discusses
how this shapes her portrayal of reality, identity, civilisation,
and morality. Angela Carter and Western Philosophy will be of
interest to researchers, lecturers, and students working on
contemporary women's writing, philosophy and literature, and
intertextual literary practices.
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