The artifice that endures the burden of the past : analysing memory in Angela Carter's fictional works

• Main Author: Yuvaneswari.
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95620; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9453
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper aims to analyse the treatment and function of memory in Angela Carter’s early short fiction “A Very Great Lady and her Son at Home” and “A Souvenir of Japan” – ostensibly autobiographical works – before progressing on to a rhetorical employment of memory in The Infernal Desire Machines of...