ENGL 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Angela Carter, Feminist Pornography, Close Reading
3 May 2016
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Bloody chamber mix of genres, gothic genre, pornography, fairy tale, opera, reference to paintings- mixture. Angela carter- feminist + post-modernist writer reinvented gothic and brings in carnavalesque culture , humour and chaos. Simmons comics satirical critique of social relations. Bloody chamber social critique talking back to dominant culture talking back from the peripheries --- critical insight into stereotypes of women in well known stories (fairy tales) Bloody chamber- new ideas in old form to explode em. Damsel in distress saved + happy ending + marriage plot. Fairy tales as a form why tell a child these stories moral/ lessons ------ so harmful for women. -< teaches girls to be obedient (ex: little red riding hood follow path and be obedient or else wold will eat grandmother) 1- eve causes downfall of mankind ate from tree of knowledge and evil. 2- pandora let"s out evil (famine/rape/disease ) and is blamed for that. Female scapegoats so myths can be harmful to women.
