КРВАВАТА ОДАЈА ОД АНЏЕЛА КАРТЕР: ПОЕТИКАТА НА ЗАБРАНЕТОТО И ПИШУВАЊЕТО КАКО ОДГОВОР И ПРЕРАБОТКА
THE BLOODY CHAMBER BY ANGELA CARTER: THE POETICS OF THE FORBIDDEN AND THE ART OF WRITING AS A REWRITING

Summary/Abstract: Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber is a subversive take on traditional fairy tales like Bluebeard, Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, or Puss in Boots, where the narrator anonymously, yet intimately, relates the horrors that lie behind the forbidden door and the temptation and allure of forbidden knowledge. Carter strategically deconstructs the representations of women in the 1970s social and political environment of Great Britain. She says she is “all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the old bottles explode.” What is more, she advocates for a new reading of the old texts and for promoting the art of writing as a rewriting and revision of the old gender stereotypes (which might function as a poorly recalled memory), in order to find out what certain configurations of imagery in society and culture really stand for. Drawing on these references, the essay explores the traces of Carter’s method of “inversion” and “demythologization” in her Gothic stories, which are firmly grounded in the Indo-European popular tradition.

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