Contents
1 Introduction about Angela Carter.......................................1
2 A definition of gender and feminism......................................2
3 The Bloody Chamber and its fairy tales.....................................2
4 The comparison of the fairy tales The Tiger's Bride and The Courtship of Mr. Lyon..........................................................3
5 The comparison of the fairy tales The Tiger's Bride and The Werewolf..........................................................................9
6 Summary ...............................................................12
7 Bibliograpy
1 Introduction
Angela Carter was born in Eastbourne, Sussex, the daughter of a journalist. She was removed by her grand mother, a working class domineering feminist granny of the north of England, to Souh Yorkshire during the war years. It was not surprising that Carter's first years were later to have so much of an influence on her writing and philosophy. After rejoining her mother she suffered from anorexia. At 20 she married. Before starting her English studies at the university of Bristol, Carter worked for the Croydon Advertiser and wrote features and record reviews.
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Angela Carter
Italiano: Albero genealogico dei personaggi del ro...After graduating, she settled in the city of Bristol and began her literary career.
She is an English short story writer, novelist, journalist, dramatist and critic. Carter is a notable exponent of magic realism, who added into Gothic themes, violence, and eroticism. Her work represents a successful combination of post-modern literary theories and feminist politics. Carter died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one.
Since Angela Carter has been seen as one of the most famous post modernism feminists in our time, it is really important for us to realize what feminism is and which role gender plays in the feminist's writings. Firstly I want to have a short introduction about feminism.
2 A definition of gender and feminism
Feminist psychoanalytic theorists, along with other feminists, understand the history of the hitherto existing societies as a history of the subordination of women by and to men. Women have always...