Gustar, Jennifer, Caleb Sivyer and Sarah Gamble, eds., Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetics: Angela Carter at Play

The spiraling tornado of Fevvers’ laughter began to twist and shudder across the globe, as if a spontaneous response to the giant comedy that endlessly unfolded beneath it, until everything that lived and breathed, everywhere, was laughing (Nights at the Circus, 295).Angela Carter’s writing is ridd...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc,
Autor Principal: Ryan, Michelle
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: Études britanniques contemporaines 2021
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:The spiraling tornado of Fevvers’ laughter began to twist and shudder across the globe, as if a spontaneous response to the giant comedy that endlessly unfolded beneath it, until everything that lived and breathed, everywhere, was laughing (Nights at the Circus, 295).Angela Carter’s writing is riddled with references to play, be it Fevvers’s explosive laughter, or the Colonel’s ‘Ludic Game’ in Nights at the Circus, the self-reflexive story ‘In Pantoland’, or her final novel Wise Children: ‘W...