Angela carter's animal tales: Constructing the non‐human

Pollock, Mary Sanders

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“…Guy frequently featured on children's television and influenced both children's writers such as Lucy Boston (Robbins 1971), as well as creators of adult fiction such as Angela Carter, who was totally horrified by the institution of the zoo. She wrote that Guy's miserable fate, together with that of the other incarcerated primates, must make the creatures weep at the end of every day (Pollock 2000). There is a blackand-white photograph for sale at the Museum of London that seems to confirm this.…”

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What’s new pussycat? A genealogy of animal celebrity

Blewitt

2013

Celebrity Studies

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Animal celebrity is a human creation informing us about our socially constructed natural world. It is relational, expressive of cultural proclivities, political power plays and the quotidian everyday, as well as serious philosophical reflections on the meaning of being human. This article attempts to outline some key contours in the genealogy of animal celebrity, showing how popular culture, including fairground attractions, public relations, Hollywood movies, documentary films, zoo attractions, commercial sport and mediatised moral panics -particularly those accompanying scientific developments such as cloning -help to order, categorise and license aspects of human understanding and feelings. The nature of [animal] charisma and celebrity are explored with assistance from Jumbo the Elephant, Guy the Gorilla, Paul the clairvoyant octopus, Uggie the film star, Nénette the orang-utan and Dolly the sheep. It argues that the issue of what it is to be human lies beneath the celebritised surface or, as Donna Haraway noted, the issue 'of having to face oneself '.

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Section: Close and Mysteriousmentioning

confidence: 85%

What’s new pussycat? A genealogy of animal celebrity

Blewitt

2013

Celebrity Studies

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Angela Carter

Müller‐Wood¹

2020

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

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“Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage”: Avianthropes and the Embodiment of the Canorographic Voice in Angela Carter’s “The Erl-King” andNights at the Circus

Paulusma

2021

Contemporary Women's Writing

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Renowned for her fiction, Angela Carter was also a folk singer in the 1960s, played English concertina, and cofounded a folk club. A newly unearthed archive of her notes, musical notations, and recordings provides a window into her folk song praxis. When juxtaposed with her diaries, album sleeve notes, and unpublished papers, a new understanding of Carter’s writing processes emerges. This essay explores her “canorographic” writing or “songful” writing, embodied in avianthropes: the bird-girls in “The Erl-King” and Fevvers in Nights at the Circus. I compare Child Ballad “Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight,” Ovid’s Philomel, and Petrarch’s nightingale with Carter’s bird-women to show how her tropes transcode the singing voice into prose, disclosing the porous boundaries between literature and song and reimagining prose as performance.

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Angela carter's animal tales: Constructing the non‐human

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

What’s new pussycat? A genealogy of animal celebrity

What’s new pussycat? A genealogy of animal celebrity

Angela Carter

“Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage”: Avianthropes and the Embodiment of the Canorographic Voice in Angela Carter’s “The Erl-King” andNights at the Circus

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