Beauty or a Beast? Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus
Transgressing Seemingly Established Concepts of Beauty, Good,
and Evil

k 2020

Beauty or a Beast? Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus Transgressing Seemingly Established Concepts of Beauty, Good, and Evil

KOTUCZ, Barbora

Základní údaje

Originální název

Beauty or a Beast? Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus Transgressing Seemingly Established Concepts of Beauty, Good, and Evil

Autoři

KOTUCZ, Barbora

Vydání

11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : "Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions", 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, 2020

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

Angela Carter; Noci v cirkuse; transgrese; hranice

Klíčová slova anglicky

Angela Carter; Nights at the Circus; transgression; boundaries

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 3. 4. 2021 09:46, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

When it comes to breaching boundaries, Angela Carter’s magical realist writing, especially the novel Nights at the Circus, offers a palette of seemingly established notions deconstructed as soon as her stories begin. Omnipresent elements of the carnivalesque both underline and undermine the absurdity of the magical which, paradoxically, features concepts inherent to everyday ordinary life of an individual’s mind. Embodiments of these ideas, such as the winged woman Fevvers – the central figure protagonist in Nights at the Circus – epitomizing the concept of incredulous beauty, seem to constantly shatter the reader’s recognition of these abstract notions as understood and accepted as somehow established in society’s common mind. Fevvers is presented as relativizing the concept of beauty, being regarded as both a unique jewel hatched from an egg destined for high life and a beast designed to spend her life in the “Museum of Women Monsters”. One can barely find Carter’s own definitions of such notions but is left rather insecure about how easily she manages to break what the reader thought was an established image in one’s mind. This transgressive power also includes the concepts of good and evil, whose definitions and representations become as obscure as the concept of beauty.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1204/2019, interní kód MU

Název: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments - II (Akronym: ReComE 2020)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments - II, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

KOTUCZ, Barbora. Beauty or a Beast? Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus Transgressing Seemingly Established Concepts of Beauty, Good, and Evil. In 11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : "Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions", 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. 2020.

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KOTUCZ, Barbora. Beauty or a Beast? Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus Transgressing Seemingly Established Concepts of Beauty, Good, and Evil. In \textit{11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : ''Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions'', 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University}. 2020.

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