Naslov
ANGELA CARTER'S THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES: THE DIALECTICS OF THEMES, MODES AND GENRES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE POSTMODERN GOTHIC FAIRY TALE

Autori
Kosovec, Matko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, diplomski rad, diplomski

Fakultet
Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu

Mjesto
Zagreb

Datum
04.04

Godina
2009

Stranica
44

Mentor
Polak, Iva

Ključne riječi
Angela Carter, Gothic, fairy tale, fantasy, postmodernism, heterotopia, genre, short fiction, post-feminism, pornography, sexual desire

Sažetak
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by Angela Carter, first published in 1979. This thesis examines the theory of genres of the fantastic, gives insight into theoretical and thematic dualities through exemplary tales, analyses the context of a postmodern Gothic fairy tale and its tropes and themes, discusses locality and setting through Foucault’s heterotopias and introduces a different perspective on pornography and sexual desire in Carter’s stories. This paper will argue that Carter’s collection transcends the boundaries of a specific mode and genre and that each story is an independent narrative unit set in its own world with a particular set of laws of nature and spaces that play a significant role in the structure of these narratives. It will also propose that there are six archetypes of sexual desire ; two female and four male ones, and that pornography plays a major role in Carter’s fairy tales.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Književnost

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