Wise Children
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Wise Children was the last novel written by Angela Carter. The novel follows the fortunes of twin chorus girls, Dora and Nora Chance, and their bizarre theatrical family. It explores the subversive na
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Carnivalesque
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The Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems
Wise Children
…on Carter's admiration of Shakespeare and her love of fairy tales and the surreal, incorporating a large amount of magical realism and elements of the carnivalesque that probes and twists our expectations of reality and society. Angela Carter wrote this novel after she knew she had been diagnosed with lung cancer…
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559)