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Body Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter: Writing from a Corporeagraphic Point of View
Author(s): Anna Kerchy (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 372 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773448926
- ISBN-13: 9780773448926
Book Description
This study fills a major gap of Carter’s reception and enters into dialogue with current post-semiotical theories of the embodied subject by virtue of focusing on the dynamics of the meaning-in-process concomitant with the subject-in-process (Kristeva 1985) and the body-in-process. Through a corporeal narratological method-a close-reading interfacing of semioticized bodies in the text and of the somatized text on the body–I decipher how the ideologically disciplined, normativized-neutralized cultural body and its repressed yet haunting transgressive, corporeal, material reality are de composed by the Carterian fiction’s destabilizing discursive subversions and vibrations surfacing in narrative blind-spots, overwriting, textual ruptures or rhetorical manoeuvres.
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About the Author
Dr. Anna Kerchy is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Institution of English and American Studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She holds a DEA in Semiology from Universite Paris 7 and a PH.D in Literature from the University of Szeged. Her research fields include gender studies, body studies, cultural and literary-theory.
