in English This MA thesis focuses on the analysis of picaresque elements and traces of the picaresque genre in chosen novels of Angela Carter, namely her two most picaresque novels: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) and Nights at the Circus (1984). However, as I have strived to prove throughout the analysis, Carter's earlier novels from the sixties, The Magic Toyshop (1967), and Heroes and Villains (1969) are also rich in picaresque themes and motives of the journey and therefore deserve to have their place in the analysis too. In the introduction the dissertation traces the history of the picaresque from its sixteenth-century Spanish roots until its more modern and postmodern development. It also stresses that in relation to Carter's work it is important to take into account her intertextuality. In describing it Linden Peach borrows Julia Kristeva's quotation from Semiotike, Recherches pour un Semanalyse where she observes that: "Every text builds itself as a mosaic of quotations, every text is absorption and transformation of another text."1 For Carter this is especially valid - her novels are hybrid, multi-layered mosaics which use and at the same time subvert mythology, the Bible, European and English literary works, Renaissance drama (Shakespeare), fairy-stories and folk...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:310433 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Mečířová, Eliška |
| Contributors | Nováková, Soňa, Wallace, Clare |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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