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AMERICAN GHOSTS AND OLD WORLD WONDERS 'ANGELA CARTER £1399. CHATTO& WINDUS

... AMERICAN GHOSTS AND OLD WORLD WONDERS 'ANGELA CARTER £1399. CHATTO& WINDUS jronic reconstruction of “tigerness” as refracted through centuries of culture. It is, if you like, a “fake” tiger, a “false” tiger, a tiger built like a golem. As an abstract ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1993
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

A CAR SPECTRE

... A CAR SPECTRE. American ghosts, observes the Globe, have almost reached their neplus ultra of eccentricity. The drivers and conductors on a tramway in Detroit have been frightened out of the few wits they possess by tbe spectre of a lady who mysteriously ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1873
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE PIFESHIRE JOUANAL, THURSDNY, SEPTEMBER 18,1873. A PHANTOM PASSENGER

... THE PIFESHIRE JOUANAL, THURSDNY, SEPTEMBER 18,1873. A PHANTOM PASSENGER. American ghosts have almost reached their ettra of eccentricity. The drivers and conductors on a tramway in Detroit have been frightened out of the few wits they possess by the spectre ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1873
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(From FUNNY FOLKS.)

... —Ci-gar-rulous fellow. SCHOOL BOARD TEXT. Consider the Tru-ant and be wise. IMMATERIAL JOYS.—The pleasures of an American 'Ghosts' Ball. ' As You MAKE YOUR BED. Cashlow remarks that it's only when a man has his bed sold from under him that he fully ...

Published: Friday 27 June 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Halla Beloff Restless spirits

... representations of tigers in literature, in myth, in art. It is not a concrete ‘tiger, ‘but an growing interest in the American ghosts of Puritanism, of Hollywood, of slavery, of Indian, Hmmemd European culture, the of her second half, Old World Wonders ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1993
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 500 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

Lost talent who made demons her own

... tion, from dominant narrative to portraiture in Black Venus, a pivotal book of sorts, through the posthumously published American Ghosts & Old World Wonders — eschewing fantasy worlds, while fastening on reality, plucking the inscape of that reality from ...

Published: Sunday 23 July 1995
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 611 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

EXTRACTS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... RXIIIBITION IN BLACK WHIM—The Zulu War. TEXT.— Consider the Truant and be wise. IMMIATCRIAL JOTS.—The pleasures of an American Ghosts' Ball. FOR ONLY.—There is a talk of establishing a Six Days' Talking Contest. POR • BAOMAN.—A Ci-gar-rulous fellow. ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1879
Newspaper: Leith Herald
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 698 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

5 MAGAZINE The circus lights under one big top

... day” when she created her own legend (The Fall River Axe Murders). These, and the stories in the posthumous collection, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, are hybrids of tale and critical essay, a reminder that Carter was also one of the finest discursive ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1995
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1059 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Posthumous collection creates a temple of strange familiars

... mysterious to me . .. and I imagine him with an intelligence nourished only by the black book of the father, and hence AMERICAN GHOSTS & OLD WORLD WONDERS B Angela Carter: Chatto & Windus, £13.99 . cruelly circumscribed, yet dense with allusion, seeing ...

Published: Sunday 04 April 1993
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1107 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

THE COMIC PRESS

... Bagman.—Ci-gar-rulous fellow. School Board Text. —Consider the Tru-antand be wise. Immaterial Joys.—The pleasures of American Ghosts' Ball. As You Make Your Bed. —Cashlow remarks that it's only when a man has his bed sold from under him thit he fully ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1399 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION

... of information and discovery. In the year that has passed much has been done towards the general advancement, from the American ghosts of our photographic friends at Boston to the more tangible ghosts of Professor Pepper in London. Globe lenses have been ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1863
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1563 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE NORTH BRITON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1873. The Lord Chief Justice—l hope ilia will be wanted this side ..

... will be wanted this side Christmas. (Laughter.) The Court adjourned at live nveutes after four o'clock. A CAR SPECTRE. American ghosts, observe. the Moir. have almost retched their He plus ultra of e !centricity. The drivers and c,incuctors on a tramway ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1873
Newspaper: North Briton
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1701 | Page: 8 | Tags: none