ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter, Magic Realism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Breid Mc Ilkenny

Document Summary

Married at 20, divorced 12 years later. Moved to japan & became a (second wave) feminist. Often described as a postmodern, feminist, gothic writer. Taken from the bloody chamber, published 1979. Revisionist, feminist interpretation of fairy tales of western europe. Took the latent content of the stories, and used that to build new stories. A gothic tale (unidentified time & place) Magic realism fantasy & reality at once. The wolf: dangerous, but facilitate desire, knowledge, the desirability of power & the futility of fear. The company of wolves reference to a company of actors (dramatic/theatrics story) Thumbs her nose at the notion of not straying from the path , in the original. Fear is one of the major themes, introduced very early. Very unkind descriptions of the wolf ( grey as famine plague ) Presents the wolf as the archenemy of man. Introduction of the werewolves = the introduction of the magic realism.