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This study fills a major gap of Carter's reception and enters into dialogue with current post-semiotical theories of the embodied subject by virtue of focusing on the dynamics of the meaning-in-process concomitant with the subject-in-process (Kristeva 1985) and the body-in-process. Through a corporeal narratological method-a close-reading interfacing of semioticized bodies in the text and of the somatized text on the body-I decipher how the ideologically disciplined, normativized-neutralized, 'cultural' body and its repressed yet haunting transgressive, corporeal, material 'reality' (are) (de)

Human body in literature --- Grotesque in literature --- Femininity in literature --- Feminism in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Feminist theory in literature --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Carter, Angela, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Characters --- Women.