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EN4004: ANGELA CARTER: THE PASSION OF NEW EVE

Week 17: What is going on? A basic first session on the book—make sure you’ve read as much of it as possible! These are the questions that we’ll be running through, at top speed, in the seminar: What actually happens in the book? Which major themes do you detect? What do you make of the narrative style (ie. the effect of the firstperson narrator)? What about its genre? How would you place this text relative to the others that we have studied?

Week 18: Rewriting the (male?) canon From the title onwards, The Passion of New Eve invites us to think about existing texts (literary as well as visual/cinematic) and their relationship to social/cultural ideas of gender, sexuality, and race. Using the section from Sarah Gamble’s The Fiction of Angela Carter: a reader’s guide to essential criticism handed out last week, and any elements of the lecture/s that have interested you, choose one of the following genres or texts, and find a passage from The Passion of New Eve with which to compare it: The Bible (Genesis in particular) Frankenstein Any dystopian/sci-fi novel Any twentieth or twenty-first century romance Either one of the clips of Josephine Baker or of Greta Garbo (in the ‘Resources’ section on Minerva). You’ll discuss your choices in groups, then share conclusions with the rest of the seminar. I should add that this is not a definitive list of genres referenced by the novel (psychoanalytic discourse plays an important role too, for instance). Week 19: Reading with theory Carter’s novels engage, often combatively, with contemporary ‘literary theory’ (as we’ve seen in the lectures). As such, while it

isn’t always advisable to read her work as an example of a particular theoretical position, it’s equally unadvisable to try to avoid theoretical perspectives altogether. Your task this week is to choose one a theoretical text (and position) from the list below, and to demonstrate how The Passion of New Eve works with, or against it. You’ll be doing this in groups, and I’ll need you to provide a one-page printed handout that you can circulate in the seminar. All texts are available in the library, either in hard copy, or electronically: McHale or Hutcheon in the Resources section. The second wave : a reader in feminist theory. Edited by Linda Nicholson (London: Routledge, 1997). Choose any essay that interests you. Feminist theory today an introduction to second-wave feminism. Edited by Judith Evans (London: Sage, 1995). Choose either Butler, De Beauvoir or Cixous from Dennis Walder (ed.) Literature and the Modern World (second edition)....