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Contemporary Women's Writing 2008 2(2):155-173; doi:10.1093/cww/vpn016
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The Proustian Mystery of the Black Swan in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman*

Natsumi Ikoma

International Christian University, Japan

Correspondence: natsumi@icu.ac.jp

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   In Search of Lost Connections: Ongoing Dialogue
 
Among Angela Carter's many pieces, it is perhaps The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, published in 1972, that has generated the most diverse readings. Connections have been drawn with Carter's other works; Sarah Gamble places Doctor Hoffman in linear association with Fireworks (1974) and The Sadeian Woman (1979), and Cornel Bonca adds "The Company of Wolves" (1979) to the list; David Punter and Linden Peach, on the other hand, have found in Doctor Hoffman characteristics peculiar to The Passion of New Eve (1977) (Gamble, Fiction 99–103; Punter 209–22; Peach 99–130). Numerous names and ideas have been advanced by critics in relation to this novel, outside the Carterian literary canon: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Freud, Lacan, Bataille, Sade, Nietzsche, Marcuse, Reich, Rousseau, Swift, Lévi-Strauss, Surrealism, Feminism, Oedipus, etc., etc. Incongruously, Proust's masterpiece, À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27)1 remains outside the critical circle. This is stranger still since . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Formation of Desire: The Mystery of the Black Swan
 

   Romantic Quest and Other Desire
 

   Hidden Pursuit of Phallus
 

   Desire in Narrative
 

   Swan and Swann
 

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