How does Carter present the experience of the girl in The Bloody Chamber? Carter has directed the narrative mostly‚ although not completely‚ from the older woman in the text‚ speaking back on the past (therefore past tense) as a first person narrative. There is interjections of dialogue throughout the text‚ although it is mostly constructed as a written text‚ as if the older women is writing in a diary‚ but has interjections of dialogue‚ possibly showing her memory traveling back and replaying
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Historiographic metafiction is a term originally coined by literary theorist Linda Hutcheon. The term “historiographic metafiction” was coined by Linda Hutcheon in her essay “Beginning to Theorize the Postmodern” in 1987 and then further developed in her seminal study A Poetics of Postmodernism ( 1988 ) to describe “those well-known and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages.” According to Hutcheon‚ in "A Poetics
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that it is a complex allegory. What is your response to the text? Carter expresses many aspects of the gothic genre in her short story ‘The Snow Child’. However the play doesn’t merely consist of gothic themes such as the supernatural‚ incest or the sublime‚ like many critics may suggest‚ but relies on an allegory which by definition can make the narrative much more than what is perceived as being ‘one dimensional’ “Carter says of her stories in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ that allegory is intended1
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TIGERS BRIDE_ BY ANGELA CARTER CONCEPTS OF GENDER The short story_The Tigers Bride_ raises thought provoking concepts around gender through a plot both alike and unlike traditional Beauty and the Beast. The role of both genders is explored and true freedom questioned within the bounds of society. The text delivers a powerful and even handed message to the genders that constraints are merely a construct‚ a mask which can slip and shatter when pressure is applied. Angela Carter sketches a bleak setting
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Historiographic Metafiction in The Wars The writing of history has consistently been under heavy scrutiny‚ however it is justifiable. When someone reads a book of history they are never getting the honest-to-god truth. This is because along with the writing of history comes bias. Historiographic literature is a style of writing that is found in The Wars‚ it is a style the critiques or gives somewhat of a commentary on the writing of history. However the historiographic nature of this book is
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Historiographic Metafiction Parody and the Intertextuality of History LINDA HUTCHEON Il y a plus affaire à interpreter les interpretations qu’a interpreter les choses‚ et plus de livres sur les livres que sur autre sujet: nous ne faisons que nous entregloser. -Montaigne The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title‚ the first lines‚ and the last full-stop‚ beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form‚ it is caught up in a system of references to other books‚ other
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Comparative essay – Tigers bride and the Courtship of Mr Lyon The Bloody Chamber collection by Angela Carter is a selection of short gothic retellings of well known fairy tales. Two of the works “The Tigers Bride” and “The Courtship of Mr Lyon” are both based from the story Beauty and the beast. Beauty and the beast is a traditional French tale first created in 1740. As they are based off the same text it’s not surprising that they have some very similar elements‚ however their differences are where
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Metafiction Professor Bampton English 111E September 28‚ 2012 “Happy Endings” by Margaret Attwood‚ is an oddly structured‚ metafictional story‚ which includes a series of possible scenarios all leading the characters to the same ending. This paper will show how Happy Endings is a metafictional text. It will also explain which parts of the story are indeed metafictional. Metafiction is defined by “Dictionary.com” as‚ “fiction that discusses‚ describes or analyzes a work of fiction or
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The Sexual Content in Angela Carter´s “The Bloody Chamber” The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories‚ is a selection of fairytales which have been re-written by Angela Carter to place them in the modern day. Carter has taken seven fairytales whose “latent content” she says were “violently sexual”‚ (qtd by Robin Sheets‚ “Pornography Fairy Tales and Feminism” 642). The stories include a variation of classics fairytales such as “Bluebeard”‚ “Beauty and the Beast” and “Little Red Riding Hood” with sometimes
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Metafiction in Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Borges’ use of metafiction in the compiled short stories of “Ficciones”‚ shows a different type of narrative technique. The author interpolates ideas or stories within his stories to provide a critique of his own work in order to analyze the basic structures of narrative fiction. In Borges’ short stories “The Circular Ruins” and“The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim”‚ Borges critiques his own style of writing by creating a fictional story within his fictional
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