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Canada Eluding "Mind-forg'd Manacles": Resisting Oppression in the Fiction of Angela Carter by James Richard Olchowy Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia September 12, 1994 (cj Copyright by James Richard Olchowy, 1994 National Library Bibliotheque nationale 1*1 of Canada du Canada Acquisitions and Direction des acquisitions et Bibliographic Services Branch des services bibliographiques 395 Wellington Street 395, rue Wellington Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa (Ontario) K1A0N4 K1A0N4 four hie Volte tetsrence Out hie Notte teletence THE AUTHOR HAS GRANTED AN L'AUTEUR A ACCORDE UNE LICENCE IRREVOCABLE NON-EXCLUSIVE IRREVOCABLE ET NON EXCLUSIVE LICENCE ALLOWING THE NATIONAL PERMETTANT A LA BIBLIOTHEQUE LIBRARY OF CANADA TO NATIONALE DU CANADA DE REPRODUCE, LOAN, DISTRIBUTE OR REPRODUIRE, PRETER, DISTRIBUER SELL COPIES OF HIS/HER THESIS BY OU VENDRE DES COPIES DE SA ANY MEANS AND IN ANY FORM OR THESE DE QUELQUE MANIERE ET FORMAT, MAKING THIS THESIS SOUS QUELQUE FORME QUE CE SOIT AVAILABLE TO INTERESTED POUR METTRE DES EXEMPLAIRES DE PERSONS. 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K. Olchowy (1962-94) iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents v Abstract vi List of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Images and Scenes of Imprisonment: 32 Patriarchy in Shadow Dance. The Magic Toyshop. Several Perceptions, and Heroes and Villains Chapter 2: Reading and Subverting Patriarchal Plots: 94 Reality, Fantasy, and Desire in Carter's Middle Period Chapter 3: Diagnosing Female Dependence, Suffering, and 121 Self-Destructiveness: Reason, Madness, and Sado­ masochism in Love Chapter 4: Undoing the Psychological Oppression of Women: 174 Portraying New Kinds of Female Consciousness in Fireworks Chapter 5: Mapping the Entrapped Male Imagination: Travelling 238 Through the Inner Space of Masculinity in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Chapter 6: Dismantling Sadomasochism and Contemplating Freedom: 268 Critiquing Sade and Man-Made
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