Cited: Carter‚ Angela. Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. New York: VINTAGE (RAND)‚ 2006. Cohen‚ Jeffrey Jerome. "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)." Monster Theory. Ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press‚ 1996. Russel‚ Karen‚ “Vampires in the Lemon
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a particular critical approach and literary framework to a text‚ demonstrating the significance and influence of a context in which literary texts are written and understood. | Standard Texts/References: Mary Shelley Frankenstein/Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber/William Shakespeare MacbethStudents own choice of literary texts for coursework plus ‘AQA Anthology of Literary Criticism’ provided by College | Wk No | W/C | Subject/Topic/Skills | Assessment Details | Notes/References(e.g. trips
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“It is ironic that the beasts are often more humane than the humans” Discuss The Bloody Chamber highlights prime examples whereby the beasts convey very human characteristics such as: love‚ compassion and vulnerability; more so than the human characters. Although one interpretation is that the humans in the stories are the more humane characters‚ I’d argue that it is the more the humans that convey features such as: violent‚ cruel‚ selfish and other inhumane characteristics. First it is important
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“Gothic settings are desolate‚ alienating and full of menace”. In the light of this comment‚ consider some of the ways in which writers use settings in the gothic texts you have read. In ‘The Bloody Chamber’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’‚ Carter and Bronte conform to the gothic conventions with desolate and alienating settings that are full of menace‚ but there are also elements that subvert this view and portray purity and entrapment; the need to escape the gothic mould. A desolate setting is a place
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studied? The word obsession means the domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea‚ image or desire. With this in mind‚ both Faustus and Frankenstein show symptoms of monomania in relation to academic obsession. Similarly‚ in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ the characters that experience obsession are also male‚ however they are driven by a different obsession: sexual desire. In the prologue of ‘Doctor Faustus’ it already begins to establish Faustus’ thirst for knowledge and how this resulted
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From How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster Notes by Marti Nelson 1. Every Trip is a Quest (except when it’s not): a. A quester b. A place to go c. A stated reason to go there d. Challenges and trials e. The real reason to go—always self-knowledge 2. Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion a. Whenever people eat or drink together‚ it’s communion b. Not usually religious c. An act of sharing and peace d. A failed meal carries negative connotations 3. Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
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the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode" A. Carter Angela Carter’s production could be located in the bosom of English writers generation influenced by the second feminism and also interested on revealing in their works genre inequality. The re-writing of myths is often one of the most successful ways of recognition by the hand of a writer and a poet like Michèle Roberts‚ Sara Maitland‚ Michelle Wandor and Angela Carter. Carter is characterized by her concerning about unmasking mythical
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Bibliography: Carter‚ A. " ’The Company of Wolves ’‚ from ‘The Bloody Chamber ’" (Great Britain‚ Vintage‚ 1979) Foster‚ B.R (translation). "The Epic of Gilgamesh" A Norton Critical edition (America‚ W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc. 2001) Grimm‚ J. Grimm‚ W. "Little Red Cap" (1812) Class handout Perry
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Angela Carter: "The Company of Wolves" (1979‚ excerpt) Men are powerful‚ strong‚ dominant. But what are women’s strengths? This question was widely discussed in the late seventies during the women’s liberation movement. Women all over the world were fighting for their rights‚ and this inspired female authors to put their thoughts into stories. Women could be manipulative‚ deceiving. They could control men when they wanted to. So why were the men in control of the world? By rewriting "Little
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Ultimately‚ Atwood and Carter intriguingly critique on the place of women in society at the time through their feminist texts (1980s) where the second wave of feminism looks beyond the right to vote due to complications arising on managing the domestic sphere and the workplace but also allow women to take control of their bodies and sexuality through for example the oral contraceptive. A contemporary feminist concern would also hold female sexuality as a prominent aspect of feminism to challenge
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