The Bloody Chamber critics Flashcards
critics - The Bloody Chamber (14 cards)
Sarah Gamble
“A capacity to shock, startle and delight”
Jago morrison
“a creative attempt at subversion”
Aidan Day
“Carters fiction is a bit extreme”
Merja Makinen
“Women troubled by and even empowered by their own violence”
Greg Buzwell
“The story makes use of quintessentially Gothic settings and props like something straight from a tale by Ann Radcliffe or Edgar Allen Poe”
Chris Power
“Like the fairy tales she transmuted, there are all sorts of spaces in her stories unto which interpretation can flow”
The Guardian
Carters tales were met with ‘furious hostility
Angela Carter
“I am quite appalled at the violence of my own imagination”
Helen Simpson “Carter was later to …”
“Carter was later to come under attack for not busting more taboos than she did”
Helen Simpson “She shows that …”
“She shows that passivity is never a virtue, especially not in women”
Helen Simpson “The heroines of these stories are …”
“The heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straitjackets of history and ideology and biological essentialism”
Helen Simpson “The Marquis is a …”
“The marquis is a parodic evil aesthete”
Helen Simpson “The Bloody Chamber is as …”
“The Bloody Chamber is as shocking today as when the collection first appeared in 1979”
Margaret Atwood
“The nature of men is not fixed by Carter as inevitably predatory”
