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The Quest for Female Empowerment in Angela Carter's Wise Children
Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy “I AM NOT SURE IF THIS IS A HAPPY ENDING” THE QUEST FOR FEMALE EMPOWERMENT IN ANGELA CARTER’S WISE CHILDREN Supervisor: Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of Professor Marysa Demoor the requirements for the degree of “Master in de Taal- en Letterkunde: Engels” by Aline Lapeire 2009-2010 Lapeire ii Lapeire iii “I AM NOT SURE IF THIS IS A HAPPY ENDING” THE QUEST FOR FEMALE EMPOWERMENT IN ANGELA CARTER’S WISE CHILDREN The cover of Wise Children (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) Lapeire iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This dissertation could not have been written without the help of the following people. I would hereby like to thank… … Professor MARYSA DEMOOR for supporting my choice of topic and sharing her knowledge about gender studies. Her guidance and encouragement have been very important to me. … DEBORA VAN DURME and Professor SINEAD MCDERMOTT for their interesting class discussions of Nights at the Circus and Wise Children. Without their keen eye for good fiction, I might have never even heard of Angela Carter and her beautiful oeuvre. … Several very patient librarians at the University of Ghent. … A great deal of friends who at times mocked the idea of a „gender dissertation‟, yet always showed their support when it was due. I especially want to thank my loyal thesis buddies MAX DEDULLE and MARTIJN DENTANT. The countless hours we spent together while hopelessly staring at a world behind the computer screen eventually did pay off. Moreover, eternal gratitude and a vodka-Red Bull go out to JEROEN MEULEMAN who entirely voluntarily offered to read and correct my thesis. -
Feminist Subversion of Fairy-Tale Female Characters in Angela Carter's
100 ORIGINALNI NAUĈNI RAD DOI: 10.5937/reci1912100G UDC: 821.111.09-31 Karter A. 821.111.09:305-055.2"19" AnĊelka M. Gemović* University of Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy FROM CAPTIVITY TO BESTIALITY: FEMINIST SUBVERSION OF FAIRY-TALE FEMALE CHARACTERS IN ANGELA CARTER’S “THE TIGER’S BRIDE” Abstract: This paper elaborates on Angela Carter‟s subversion of the fairy-tale genre in the tale from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories titled “The Tiger‟s Bride”. The method of research combines researching relevant theoretical literature and thorough text analysis. The primary concern of this paper is the subversion of female characters in fairy tales as a means of advocating feminist attitudes. Relevant passages are used to exemplify Carter‟s feminism, with special reference to the subverted roles of the heroine of the tale. The female protagonist‟s transition from being a captive to becoming a beast is analysed, and her reinvented roles discussed and compared to the traits of the heroine from the classic Beauty and the Beast story written by De Beaumont. This is done in order to uncover the multilayered structure of Carter‟s work and hopefully determine the author‟s genuine purpose in subverting the fairy-tale genre as well as the message she wanted to convey. Key words: beast tales, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, Carter‟s feminism, Beauty and the Beast, women empowerment. * [email protected] 2 0 1 9 FROM CAPTIVITY TO BESTIALITY: FEMINIST SUBVERSION OF FAIRY- TALE FEMALE CHARACTERS IN ANGELA CARTER’S “THE TIGER’S BRIDE” 101 INTRODUCTION Angela Carter was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, professor and critic known for her feminist and nonconformist attitudes that she deliberately conveyed throughout her work. -
The Consumption of Angela Carter
The Consumption of Angela Carter: Women, Toody and Power EMMA PARKER A great writer and a great critic, V. S. Pritchett, used to sav that he swallowed Dickens whole, at the risk of indigestion. I swallow Angela Carter whole, and then I rush to buy Alka Seltzer. The "minimalist" nouvelle cuisine alone cannot satisfy my appetite for fiction. I need a "maximalist" writer who tries to tell us many things, with grandiose happenings to amuse me, extreme emotions to stir my feelings, glorious obscenities to scandalise me, brilliant and malicious expressions to astonish me. (Almansi 217) L Vs GUIDO ALMANSI suggests, consuming Angela Carter's fic• tion is simultaneously satisfying and unsettling. This is partly because, as Hermione Lee has commented, Carter "was always in revolt against the 'tyranny of good taste'" (316). As a cham• pion of moral pornography, a cultural dissident who dared to disparage Shakespeare, and a culinary iconoclast who criticised the highly-esteemed cookery writer Elizabeth David, Carter out• raged many people. Yet this impiety also gives her work its ap• peal.1 Like the critical essays, her fiction is deliciously "improper" in that it interrogates and rejects what Hélène Cixous calls the realm of the proper, a masculine economy based on the principles of authority, domination and owner• ship — a realm in which, disempowered and dispossessed, women are without property ("Castration" 42, 50). Her fiction has an unsettling effect precisely because Carter seeks to "up• set" the patriarchal order, in part through her representation of consumption, which, by revealing and refiguring the relation• ship between women, food, and power, challenges the struc• tures that underpin patriarchy. -
Course Unit Descriptor
Course unit Descriptor Faculty of Philosophy GENERAL INFORMATION Study program in which the course unit is offered Language and Literature Course unit title Novels of Angela Carter Course unit code 15DFk24 Type of course unit1 optional Level of course unit2 Doctoral Field of Study (please see ISCED3) Literature and Linguistics Semester when the course unit is offered Year of study (if applicable) Number of ECTS allocated 10 Name of lecturer/lecturers Dr Nina Muždeka Name of contact person Dr Nina Muždeka Mode of course unit delivery4 Face to face Course unit pre-requisites (e.g. level of language required, etc) PURPOSE AND OVERVIEW (max 5-10 sentences) The course is designed to introduce students to the novels written by Angela Carter, one of the most significant British female authors of the contemporary period. LEARNING OUTCOMES (knowledge and skills) Students are familiar with the features of the novels of Angela Carter, as well as with the position the authoress takes within the wider context of contemporary British fiction. Students are able to apply and express literary interpretation 1 Compulsory, optional 2 First, second or third cycle (Bachelor, Master's, Doctoral) 3 ISCED-F 2013 - http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Documents/isced-f-detailed-field-descriptions-en.pdf (page 54) 4 Face-to-face, distance learning, etc. effectively. SYLLABUS (outline and summary of topics) Lectures Angela Carter, contemporary British novel, feminist theory and engaged writing. Shadow Dance as parodic contemporary gothic fiction. Let’s begin countering patriarchal stereotypes: The Magic Toyshop. Several Perceptions: generation gap and the counterculture of the 60s. -
Angela Carter's (De)Philosophising of Western Thought
_________________________________________________________________________Swansea University E-Theses Angela Carter's (de)philosophising of Western thought. Yeandle, Heidi How to cite: _________________________________________________________________________ Yeandle, Heidi (2014) Angela Carter's (de)philosophising of Western thought.. thesis, Swansea University. http://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42410 Use policy: _________________________________________________________________________ This item is brought to you by Swansea University. Any person downloading material is agreeing to abide by the terms of the repository licence: copies of full text items may be used or reproduced in any format or medium, without prior permission for personal research or study, educational or non-commercial purposes only. The copyright for any work remains with the original author unless otherwise specified. The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holder. Permission for multiple reproductions should be obtained from the original author. Authors are personally responsible for adhering to copyright and publisher restrictions when uploading content to the repository. Please link to the metadata record in the Swansea University repository, Cronfa (link given in the citation reference above.) http://www.swansea.ac.uk/library/researchsupport/ris-support/ Angela Carter’s (de)philosophising of Western Thought Heidi Yeandle Submitted to Swansea University in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Swansea University 2014 ProQuest Number: 10798118 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. -
Angela Carter and the Violent Distrust of Metanarratives
Postmodern Openings ISSN: 2068 – 0236 (print), ISSN: 2069 – 9387 (electronic) Coverd in: Index Copernicus, Ideas. RePeC, EconPapers, Socionet, Ulrich Pro Quest, Cabbel, SSRN, Appreciative Inquery Commons, Journalseek, Scipio EBSCO Angela Carter and the Violent Distrust of Metanarratives Ileana BOTESCU – SIRETEANU Postmodern Openings, 2010, Year 1, VOL.3, September, pp: 93-138 The online version of this article can be found at: http://postmodernopenings.com Published by: Lumen Publishing House On behalf of: Lumen Research Center in Social and Humanistic Sciences BOTESCU–SIRETEANU, I.,(2010) Angela Carter and the Violent Distrust of Metanarratives, Postmodern Openings, Year 1, Vol 3, September, 2010, pp: 93-138 Angela Carter and the Violent Distrust of Metanarratives Ileana BOTESCU – SIRETEANU8 Abstract In a world where meaning has been deconstructed and reconstructed, where centers have lost their hegemony and notions such as truth, knowledge or history have been rendered relative by the ongoing ontological enquiry of the postmodern ideology, it is baffling to remark that not only in literature, but also in other fields that make use of discourses, there has been a return to and a reconsideration of the narrative. Nowadays, one can easily observe the narrative drive that enlivens various discourses, from the medical one to the one used in the academe or in official governmental documents. Brian McHale has even referred to the „narrative turn” in literary theory which, according to him, seems to answer to the loss of the metaphysical (McHale 4). Keywords: narrative turn, feminism, narrative dynamics, 8 Ileana BOTESCU – SIRETEANU – “Transilvania” University from Brasov, Romania, Email Address: [email protected]. -
Literary Miscellany
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Hamlet + Dracula & the Bloody Chamber
2 0 1 9 Hamlet Dracula & The Bloody Chamber EASTER WORK Tick when Week 1 – Securing the Knowledge complete D & TBC: Secure your knowledge - Use knowledge organisers to ensure you are secure on the basics Monday 8th - Make revision cards of any phrases that you like, knowledge April you feel is not secure (including the plot) and link to quotations from the texts - Watch Massolit on Dracula and TBC Hamlet: Secure your Knowledge - Secure your knowledge of the text and order of plot. Read over Tuesday 9th the scene notes you have. April - Group three quotations for each character - Five words for tone for each character - Massolit – John McCrea and the soliloquies Wednesday D & TBC: Re-read the introductions from both texts 10th April - Take notes and make revision cards as appropriate Hamlet: Critical Interpretations - Revise the critical interpretations on page 3-5. If you are unclear on these, make notes and revision cards. Thursday 11th - Have a well-phrased sentence you learn for each critic April - Link critical interpretation to film version and quotation from text - For fun extra revision – you could watch some of these interpretations! D & TBC Secure Critical Interpretations - Revise context booklets to ensure you have a sense of overview of interpretation over time. This will be helped by your recent read of the introductions. CORE KNOWLEDGE IS: Dracula – Stoker’s life, Daily Mail 1897, Punter, Frayling, Craft, Friday 12th Arata, Stoker’s ‘On Censorship’ essay. April TBC – Carter’s words about her work, Helen Simpson’s introduction, Marina Warner, Frayling, Helen Stoddart, Lorna Sage, Patricia Duncker - Watch/re-watch Massolit lectures to secure this knowledge - Have a well-phrased sentence you learn for each critic: test yourself. -
The Ritualization of Violence in <Em>The Magic Toyshop</Em>
Chapman University Chapman University Digital Commons English (MA) Theses Dissertations and Theses 5-2016 The Ritualization of Violence in The Magic Toyshop Victor Chalfant Chapman University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/english_theses Part of the Literature in English, British Isles Commons Recommended Citation Chalfant, Victor. The Ritualization of Violence in The Magic Toyshop. 2016. Chapman University, MA Thesis. Chapman University Digital Commons, https://doi.org/10.36837/chapman.000016 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at Chapman University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in English (MA) Theses by an authorized administrator of Chapman University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Ritualization of Violence in The Magic Toyshop A Dissertation by Victor Chalfant Chapman University Orange, CA Department of English Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English May 2016 Committee in charge: Kevin O’Brien, Ph.D., Chair Justine Van Meter, Ph.D. Joanna Levin, Ph.D. The dissertation of Victor Chalfant is approved. Kevin O’Brien, Ph.D., Chair Van Meter, Ph.D. Joanna Levin, Ph.D. May 2016 The Ritualization of Violence in The Magic Toyshop Copyright © 2016 by Victor Chalfant iii ABSTRACT The Ritualization of Violence in The Magic Toyshop by Victor Chalfant This dissertation will explore the way Philip treats puppets and masks as pseudo- sacred objects in order to maintain control in Angela Carter’s work The Magic Toyshop. To show the implications of the pseudo-sacred, I will use Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard that examines the way primitive cultures are able to maintain order through particular religious beliefs and collective violence against a scapegoat. -
Speech, Silence and Female Adolescence in Carson Mccullers’ the Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Angela Carter’S the Magic Toyshop Catherine Martin
Journal of International Women's Studies Volume 11 Issue 3 Winning and Short-listed Entries from the Article 2 2007 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition Sep-2009 Speech, Silence and Female Adolescence in Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop Catherine Martin Follow this and additional works at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws Part of the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Martin, Catherine (2009). Speech, Silence and Female Adolescence in Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop. Journal of International Women's Studies, 11(3), 4-18. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol11/iss3/2 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. This journal and its contents may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. ©2009 Journal of International Women’s Studies. Speech, Silence and Female Adolescence in Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop. By Catherine Martin1 Abstract This paper examines the relationship between adolescent female characters and silence in Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) and Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop (1967). The established body of criticism focussing on McCullers’ and Carter’s depictions of the female grotesque provides the theoretical framework for this paper, as I explore the implications of these ideas when applied to language and speech. -
Comparing Paths to Liberation and Selfhood in Angela Carter's Nights
Not a Sweet Little Bird in Sight: Comparing Paths to Liberation and Selfhood in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus and Toni Morrison’s Beloved Tess Weitzner A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in the Department of English and American Literatures, Middlebury College May, 2018 I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this work Weitzner 2 Acknowledgements I would like to thank Professor Brett Millier for keeping me grounded in my focus and for pushing me out of the nest when she knew I was ready. I would also like to thank my family for supporting me from the moment my topic hatched. Weitzner 3 Table of Contents Preface…………………………………………………………………………..…………………4 Thesis Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..…5 Section i: Giving a Voice to the Smothered: Engagements with Postmodern Literary Techniques………………………………………………………………………………...7 Section ii: Between Feminisms………………………………………………………..…18 Section iii: Magical Realism……………………………………………………………..22 Section iv: Flight and Inversion: The Motif of Birds……………………………………26 Works Cited & Works Consulted……………………………………………………………..…40 Weitzner 4 Preface In the tradition of literary criticism, comparisons are everywhere you look. As readers, we are always permitted to ask, “So what?” I am interested in comparing two specific works of Angela Carter and Toni Morrison to learn more about these texts and their creators. These authors seem to constantly oscillate between falling into and out of the same literary and contextual categories that literary critics have designed. They wrote around the same time, they wrote about heroic, complicated women, and they wrote about these women in ways that, at times, strongly align with some pertinent feminist ideologies, and, at other times, challenge them. -
The Evolution of Classic Fairy Tales
UNIVERZITA PALACKÉHO V OLOMOUCI FILOZOFICKÁ FAKULTA Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky Klára Horáčková Beasts and Beauties: The Evolution of Classic Fairy Tales Bakalářská práce Vedoucí práce: Mgr. David Livingstone, Ph.D. OLOMOUC 2019 Prohlašuji, že jsem tuto bakalářskou práci vypracovala samostatně pod odborným dohledem vedoucího práce a uvedla úplný seznam citované a použité literatury. V Olomouci dne Klára Horáčková I would like to thank my supervisor Mgr. David Livingstone, Ph.D. for his patient help, advice and encouragement. CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 5 2. HISTORY OF THE FAIRY TALE .............................................................................. 7 2.1. Folk Tales ............................................................................................................... 8 2.2. Tales of Magic ........................................................................................................ 9 2.3. Oral and Literary Fairy Tales ................................................................................. 9 3. FEMINIST THEORY AND FEMINIST CRITICISM .............................................. 12 3.1. A Room of One´s Own ........................................................................................ 13 4. ANGELA CARTER ................................................................................................... 15 4.1. Biography of Angela Carter ................................................................................