Subtly Symbolizing Social Norms
Okay! I, for one, need to get my life organized. Last week, I remember promising myself that I’ll start on my blog post regarding my presentation on Carter. Did not happen. Fortunately, I managed to find motivation this week to get myself started on it. Even better, this blog post wouldn’t be included in my “last week of school finishing up my blog … Continue reading Subtly Symbolizing Social Norms →
Feminist the Explicit
It’s easy to say that Carter’s feminist fairy tales go beyond facile table-turning scenarios—say, princess rescues the prince or maiden trades her magic trinkets for a law degree. Instead, her heroines—sometimes hapless, often virginal—make weighted decisions in limiting circumstances. Through … Continue reading →
Gothic to Giallo
The Bloody Chamber is a volume of prose that works around bodily fluids. Blood, sweat, tears and ejaculate are where the money is in any media, to be certain, and Angela Carter’s collection of stories deals with a collection of … Continue reading →
Mirrors, reflections in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
In Arts One this week we read Angela Carter’s collection of short stories entitled The Bloody Chamber. I really enjoyed this collection, though I found it challenging because we could have spent at least an hour on each story rather than talking about the whole book in two 80-minute seminar discussions. Each story has so […]
I have been reading this all wrong
When I first approached The Bloody Chamber, I admittedly probably got way too excited. This being our first feminist text in Arts One, I wanted to read into everything and I wanted to see all the bits of feminist commentary that is slipped between the lines. Naturally, I wanted to believe that Carter was making […]
Carter: Providing Pairs of Perplexing Parallels
So yeah, that title showing off consonance may or may not be intentional. You know what is intentional (and better put together than my lame attempt of a title)? Angela Carter’s stories, particularly in their relation to one another despite being separate stories. First off, can I just quickly say that I loved this book?…
It’s Just a Matter of Perspective
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I actually liked The Bloody Chamber, not only was Carter’s language evocative, but it was also very interesting how her style could shift from fine and sophisticated to vulgar and obscene within the matter of a single word. As I happen to be on the topic of language and words, … Continue reading “It’s Just a Matter of Perspective”
The Chilly Chamber
I have to admit I loved Angela Carter’s short stories, even if they almost all left me with reactions of disgust and surprise (I mean accidentally cutting your grandma’s hand off ?) Anyway, those fairytales aren’t in my opinion a nice bed-time read, but I definitely enjoyed the gothic of it. I want to focus […]
What the heck is up with “The Snow Child”?!
I haven’t finished reading The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter yet (about thirty pages to go!), but let me tell you about what I’m feeling because I’m feeling a lot of things. First of all, FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS ABOUND and this makes me so very happy. Notice that all of the books and movies we have […]