Bc Flashcards
(13 cards)
Greg Buzwell
‘Gothic novels are full of uncanny effects – simultaneously frightening, unfamiliar and yet also strangely familiar.’
Greg Buzwell
It is no longer the physical landscape that provides the location for Gothic tales but rather, more disturbingly, the human body itself.’
Anne Radcliffe
Terror and Horror are so far opposite that the first expands the soul, and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life; the other contracts, freezes and nearly annihilates them’
Angela Carter
“You know, sometimes when I read my back pages, I’m quite appalled at the violence of my imagination.”
Helen Simpson
TBC is ‘A darkly erotic reworking of Bluebeard’s Castle’
Helen Simpson
Carter was later to come under attack for not busting more taboos than she did
Helen Simpson
he stories show ‘that human beings are capable of change
Helen Simpson
The heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straightjackets of history and ideology and biological essentialism’
Helen Simpson
The Snow Child ‘is the most shocking piece of all, with its incestuous rape and murderous sexual rivalry’
Helen Simpson
The Bloody Chamber is as shocking today as when the collection first appeared in 1979’
John Bowen
‘The Gothic world is fascinated by violent differences in power, and its stories are full of constraint ’
Merja Makinen -
women troubled by and even empowered by their own violence
Aidan Day-
“Carters fiction is a bit extreme”
