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Angela Carters work is a collage of discourses and genres. The challenge of finding a critical framework, complex and accurate enough to classify her work, has remained. The spectacular and the pragmatic threads of her texts, framed by extreme seriousness and witty humour are unravelled with the help of a different metaphor, denoting enigmatic spaces, conterdiscourses, borders of otherness heterotopia. Five novels out of nine, five short stories out of thirty-five, as well as Carters two film adaptations are filtered through a term extricated from its medical and geographical roots, which emphasizes the ambiguity, as well as the dialogic interaction of Angela Carters often discordant discourses that have kept her at the top of the literary canon.

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Lecturer of English at the University of the West, Timisoara, Romania from 1999 to the present. BA in Literary studies, MA in Applied Linguistics, MA in Art and Film Studies, PhD in English Literature. My research interests are European and American Film Studies, Translation Studies. I have published nationally and internationally on literary and media studies topics.

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