Critics Flashcards
Helen Simpson
says ‘The Bloody Chamber is so often wrongly described as a group of traditional fairytales, given a subversive feminist twist’
Richard Rayner
says carter’s brash brilliance helped her to crack open middle-class conventions.
Sonya Andermahr
says in carter’s work, the role of the mother is an extremely ambiguous if not absent one
Angela Carter
said herself that ‘a mother is a biological fact, while a father is a moveable feast’
Elaine Jordan
explains the snow child’s death is not the killing of women but rather the killing of masculine representations
Helen Simpson
said carter loved to describe the trappings of luxury, to display rich scenery in rich language
Meria Makinen
said ‘Carter’s work has consistently dealt with representations of the physical abuse of women’
Jago Morrison
describes TBC as ‘an archaeological investigation of gender representation’
Sarah Gamble
comments on how the fairy tale form places the figure of the storyteller centre stage’
Patricia Dunker
says carter envisages women’s sensuality simply as a response to male arousal
Lucie Armitt
said one of the major problems facing the reader in these ten stories is that they seem always to be dissolving into each other
