The Curious Room [in] On Strangeness
A VERY RARE OFFPRINT FROM THE AUTHOR’S PERSONAL LIBRARY
CARTER, Angela
The Curious Room [in]
On Strangeness (SPELL. Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, vol. 5, ed. by The Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE) with general editor Max Nänny)
Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1990
8vo., paper wraps glued along spine, printed in black throughout with ‘off-print’ inside rectangular frame to upper cover, pp. [i], 216-232 as issued; near-fine, with some minor creases and scratches but else a clean copy.
First separate edition, this copy formerly in Carter’s own personal library, with her posthumous book label designed by Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lion Press to the upper cover.
An offprint comprising Carter’s short story ‘The Curious Room’, along with her own introduction and notes. Carter had traveled to the University of Basel as guest of honour for the symposium “On Strangeness”, organised by the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English in May 1989’ (Gordon, p. 390). In her introduction here, she notes that she felt ‘privileged to be able to read’ her story of Alice in Prague, with its connections to alchemy and magic, ‘at the University of Basel, where Paracelsus graduated’ (p. 217).
Inspired by Alice-in-Wonderland, Carter’s interpretation weaves together Carroll’s classic tale with the ‘aesthetic of surrealism’ present in Švankmajer’s interpretation (Jan Švankmajer, the Czech film director and animator, had released his first full-length film Alice in 1988, which saw the story turned into a Surrealist dark fantasy). In her own adaptation, Carter’s Alice “emerges from the looking-glass to find herself in the crystal ball of the English alchemist and magician, Dr John Dee.”
The story was later published in American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993), under the amended title ‘Alice in Prague or The Curious Room’.
Rare indeed. Although we can find the volume On Strangeness in a number of institutional libraries worldwide, we cannot trace any copies of this offprint in Library Hub Discover or WorldCat.
A VERY RARE OFFPRINT FROM THE AUTHOR’S PERSONAL LIBRARY
CARTER, Angela
The Curious Room [in]
On Strangeness (SPELL. Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, vol. 5, ed. by The Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE) with general editor Max Nänny)
Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1990
8vo., paper wraps glued along spine, printed in black throughout with ‘off-print’ inside rectangular frame to upper cover, pp. [i], 216-232 as issued; near-fine, with some minor creases and scratches but else a clean copy.
First separate edition, this copy formerly in Carter’s own personal library, with her posthumous book label designed by Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lion Press to the upper cover.
An offprint comprising Carter’s short story ‘The Curious Room’, along with her own introduction and notes. Carter had traveled to the University of Basel as guest of honour for the symposium “On Strangeness”, organised by the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English in May 1989’ (Gordon, p. 390). In her introduction here, she notes that she felt ‘privileged to be able to read’ her story of Alice in Prague, with its connections to alchemy and magic, ‘at the University of Basel, where Paracelsus graduated’ (p. 217).
Inspired by Alice-in-Wonderland, Carter’s interpretation weaves together Carroll’s classic tale with the ‘aesthetic of surrealism’ present in Švankmajer’s interpretation (Jan Švankmajer, the Czech film director and animator, had released his first full-length film Alice in 1988, which saw the story turned into a Surrealist dark fantasy). In her own adaptation, Carter’s Alice “emerges from the looking-glass to find herself in the crystal ball of the English alchemist and magician, Dr John Dee.”
The story was later published in American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993), under the amended title ‘Alice in Prague or The Curious Room’.
Rare indeed. Although we can find the volume On Strangeness in a number of institutional libraries worldwide, we cannot trace any copies of this offprint in Library Hub Discover or WorldCat.
A VERY RARE OFFPRINT FROM THE AUTHOR’S PERSONAL LIBRARY
CARTER, Angela
The Curious Room [in]
On Strangeness (SPELL. Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, vol. 5, ed. by The Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE) with general editor Max Nänny)
Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1990
8vo., paper wraps glued along spine, printed in black throughout with ‘off-print’ inside rectangular frame to upper cover, pp. [i], 216-232 as issued; near-fine, with some minor creases and scratches but else a clean copy.
First separate edition, this copy formerly in Carter’s own personal library, with her posthumous book label designed by Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lion Press to the upper cover.
An offprint comprising Carter’s short story ‘The Curious Room’, along with her own introduction and notes. Carter had traveled to the University of Basel as guest of honour for the symposium “On Strangeness”, organised by the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English in May 1989’ (Gordon, p. 390). In her introduction here, she notes that she felt ‘privileged to be able to read’ her story of Alice in Prague, with its connections to alchemy and magic, ‘at the University of Basel, where Paracelsus graduated’ (p. 217).
Inspired by Alice-in-Wonderland, Carter’s interpretation weaves together Carroll’s classic tale with the ‘aesthetic of surrealism’ present in Švankmajer’s interpretation (Jan Švankmajer, the Czech film director and animator, had released his first full-length film Alice in 1988, which saw the story turned into a Surrealist dark fantasy). In her own adaptation, Carter’s Alice “emerges from the looking-glass to find herself in the crystal ball of the English alchemist and magician, Dr John Dee.”
The story was later published in American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993), under the amended title ‘Alice in Prague or The Curious Room’.
Rare indeed. Although we can find the volume On Strangeness in a number of institutional libraries worldwide, we cannot trace any copies of this offprint in Library Hub Discover or WorldCat.