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Durante o início da década de 1990, a escritora inglesa Angela Carter compilou em dois volumes contos de fadas do mundo inteiro, tendo concluído a segunda coletânea pouco antes de morrer. Nesta edição, selecionamos alguns dos mais célebres (e...

Durante o início da década de 1990, a escritora inglesa Angela Carter coletou em dois volumes, para a editora Virago, contosde fadas do mundo inteiro, tendo concluído a segunda coletânea pouco antes de morrer. '103 Contos de Fadas', baseado em uma...

A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter'apos;s Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has...

Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter'apos;s work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary...

In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier'apos;s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated...

A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carters Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted...

Contributing to the conversation regarding Angela Carter's problematic relationship with what she viewed as the interrelated traditions of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Scott Dimovitz explores the intricate connections between Carter's private life...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHA richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter'apos;s witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any...

Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire'apos;s handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus,...

Meet nine historical couples who barely know each other before they find themselves surrendering to duty, suddenly married, and joined for life.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSONFrom familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic...

Shortly before her death Angela Carter was preparing this volume of short stories, one which does full justice to the glory of her imagination and the range of her talent. It is divided into distinct parts. The first comprises a group of stories...

The Vintage Collected Edition of Angela Carter's works continues with THE CURIOUS ROOM, which contains her dramatic writings, including several previously unpublished plays and screenplays. THE CURIOUS ROOM includes a radio play about the demented...

A unique and dazzling portrait of Angela Carter by her friend and literary executor

Drawing on many aspects of contemporary feminist theory, this lively collection of essays assesses Angela Carter's polemical fictions of desire. Carter, renowned for her irreverent wit, was one of the most gifted, subversive, and stylish British...

Widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century, Angela Carter's work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and...

Working with Texts: A Core Book for Language Analysis provides a basic foundation for understanding aspects of English language crucial in the analysis of text. The major topics covered include writing, the sound system of spoken English, words,...

Working with Texts: A Core Book for Language Analysis provides a basic foundation for understanding aspects of English language crucial in the analysis of text. The major topics covered include writing, the sound system of spoken English, words,...

a) The UnicornAs with the night-scented stock, the full splendour of the unicorn manifests itself most potently at twilight. Then the horn sprouts, swells, blooms in all its glory. SEE THE HORN(bend the tab, slit in slotmarked 'apos;x'apos;)Despite...

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts - spoken, written and...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCKAngela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist.This selection of her writing, which she made herself,...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL COOKEReading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you'apos;ve ever had; a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a...

Durante o início da década de 1990, a escritora inglesa Angela Carter compilou em dois volumes, para a editora Virago, contos de fadas do mundo inteiro, tendo concluído a segunda coletânea pouco antes de morrer. Nesta edição, a Penguin-Companhia...