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From the Margins to the Text: Monsters and Laughter in Angela Carter's Writing
Sarah Gamble
Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play, Pages: 56 - 75
Swansea University Author: Sarah Gamble
Abstract
This essay examines Carter's use of humour in her writing, and arguing that it treads a fine line between generosity and victimisation (what the essay designates 'laughing at' and 'laughing with'. In this context, the most amusing characters are also often the most monstrous...
| Published in: | Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-78976-005-7 |
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Sussex Academic Press
2021
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http://www.sussex-academic.com/sa/titles/literary_criticism/gustar.htm |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56748 |
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This essay examines Carter's use of humour in her writing, and arguing that it treads a fine line between generosity and victimisation (what the essay designates 'laughing at' and 'laughing with'. In this context, the most amusing characters are also often the most monstrous - a trope that is traced back to the medieval presentations of monsters, often drawn in the margins of texts. Thus, Carter takes the monstrous marginal, and brings it to the centre of the text in order to create an unruly carnivalesque. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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56 |
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75 |