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Kaleidoscopes, stereoscopes and desire machines: Revolutions in vision in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines Of Doctor Hoffman (2022)
Book Chapter
Sivyer, C. (2022). Kaleidoscopes, stereoscopes and desire machines: Revolutions in vision in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines Of Doctor Hoffman. In C. Crofts, & . M. Mulvey-Roberts (Eds.), Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries (153-171). Bloomsbury Publishing

Nothing immune: Ludics and laughter in the holy family album (2021)
Book Chapter
Sivyer, C. (2021). Nothing immune: Ludics and laughter in the holy family album. In Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play (157-185). Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press

Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play (2021)
Book
Sivyer, C. (2021). Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press

Angela Carter’s provocations to laughter and her enchantment with ludic narrative strategies are two key aspects of her aesthetic practice, neither of which has been the focus of sustained study. Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Cart... Read More about Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play.

"I resented it, it fascinated me": Carter's ambivalent cinematic fiction and the problem of proximity (2019)
Book Chapter
Sivyer, C. (2019). "I resented it, it fascinated me": Carter's ambivalent cinematic fiction and the problem of proximity. In The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities (233-245). Manchester University Press

Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard (2016)
Journal Article
Sivyer, C. (2016). Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard. Word and Text - A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, VI, 73-91

This article will argue that J. G. Ballard’s Concrete Island can be productively read as a narrative that engages some of the central ideas of posthumanism and that from this reading one can then re read its source text, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Cruso... Read More about Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard.

A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” (2013)
Journal Article
Sivyer, C. (2013). A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”. Gender Forum, 44, 45-61

Angela Carter’s short story collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories is a reworking of traditional fairy tales, or as she suggested “stories about fairy stories.” Carter takes up the flexible structure of the fairy story in order to communicat... Read More about A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”.