Author: Angela Carter

Cites

• Cole Porter (1)
  • IN: Wise Children (1988) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Brush up your Shakespeare.
    FROM: Brush Up Your Shakespeare, (1948), Song, US
• Old Saw (1)
  • IN: Wise Children (1988) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It's a wise child that knows its own father.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Ellen Terry (1)
  • IN: Wise Children (1988) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How many times Shakespeare draws fathers and daughters, never mothers and daughters.
    FROM: The Story of My Life, (1908), Book, UK
• Robert Desnos (1)
  • IN: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Les lois de nos desirs sont les des sans loisir
    FROM: Rrose Sélavy, (1922), Book, France
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1)
  • IN: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: (Remember that we sometimes demand definitions for the sake not of the content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one: the definition is a kind of ornamental coping that supports nothing.)
    FROM: Philosophical Investigations, (1953), Book, Austria
• Alfred Jarry (1)
  • IN: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Imagine the perplexity of a man outside time and space, who has lost his watch, his measuring rod and his tuning fork.
    FROM: Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll Pataphysician, (1911), Novel, France
• John Locke (1)
  • IN: The Passion of New Eve (1977) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the beginning all the world was America
    FROM: Second Treatise of Government, (1689), Book, UK
• Jean-Luc Godard (1)
  • IN: Heroes and Villains (1969) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There are times when reality becomes too complext for Oral Communication. But Legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
    FROM: Alphaville, (1965), Film, France/Switzerland
• Andrew Marvell (1)
  • IN: Heroes and Villains (1969) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: See how he nak'd and fierce doth stand, Cuffing the Thunder with one hand; While with the other he does lock, And grapple, with the stubborn Rock; From which he with each Wave rebounds, Torn into Flames, and ragg'd with Wounds. And all he saes, a Lover drest In his own Blood does relish best.
    FROM: The Unfortunate Lover', (1649), Poem, UK
• Leslie Fiedler (1)
  • IN: Heroes and Villains (1969) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Gothic mode is essentially a form of parody, a way of assailing clichés by exaggerating them to the limit of grotesquenss.
    FROM: Love and Death in the American Novel, (1960), Book, US
• Abbé Prévost (1)
  • IN: Heroes and Villains (1969) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Où fuir, dans un pays inconnu, désert, ou habité par des bêtes fêroces, et par des sauvages aussi barbares qu'elles?
    FROM: Manon Lescaut, (1731), Novel, France
• David Hume (1)
  • IN: Several Perceptions (1968) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearances, pass, re-pass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.
    FROM: A Treatise of Human Nature, (1739), Book, UK

Cited by

• Betsy Cornwell (2)
  • IN: Mechaninca (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Go and seek your fortune, darling.
    FROM: Ashputtle, or The Mother's Ghost: Three Versions of One Story., (1987), NULL, UK
  • IN: Mechanica (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Go and seek your fortune, darling.
    FROM: Ashputle or The Mother's Ghost: Three Versions of One Story, (1987), Novel, UK
• Gabrielle Kimm (1)
  • IN: His Last Duchess (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Desire does not so much transcend its object, as ignore it completely in favour of a fantastic recreation of it.
    FROM: Nothing Sacred, (1982), Book, UK
• Marjorie Liu (1)
  • IN: A Wild Light (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK