soundbites Flashcards
autonomy
De Silva (Lyon)
‘the daughter does not have the autonomy to overcome patriarchal society’ (Lyon)
categfories
Brooke (tiger)
‘Destabilise the artificially restrictive categories of beauty and the beast’ (tiger)
fantasy
Bacchilega (snow child)
‘A masculine fantasy’ (snow child)
devil
Bacchilega
‘The devil is the institutionalised projection of our fears and desires’
Marie Mulvey Roberts (wolf Alice)
Murdering aristocrat’
marriage
Marie Mulvey Roberts (TBC)
‘Carter sees the punishment as a result of the heroine having made an impulsive marriage’
human/animal
Marie Mulvey Roberts (tiger)
‘the boundaries between animal and human are broken down)
identity
Helen Stoddart- Glasgow (tiger)
the story conducts an investigation of identity’
masks
green (tiger)
masks represent an attempt to cover up or deceive’
Stoddart (LHL)
‘theres something very childish in his naivety’
heroin
marie mulvey Roberts (LHL)
‘an aversion of the unsuspecting heroin’
sophisticated
Linkin (erl-king)
female protagonist is a ‘highly sophisticated conscious’
male gaze
marie mulvey Roberts (ers-king)
‘she’s imprisoned by the gaze of the era king’
myths
Bynum (werewolf)
‘these are hardly myths of our time”
genre
Marie mulvey Roberts (UE)
‘pushes the genre to its limits’
arousal
Dunker 1984
‘Carter envisages women sensuality simply as a response to male arousal’
sex
Merja Makinen
‘they are not fearful of sex, just their partners desires on them’
sex
ray cluey
‘female sexuality is something to long for, yet fear’
violence
Carter (nights at the circus)
‘sometimes when I read back my pages, I’m quite appalled at the violence of my imagination’
fin de siecle
Carter
‘I wanted a lush fin-de-siecle decor for the stories)
diamond
Helen Simpson 2006
‘a multi-faced glittering diamond reflecting and refracting a variety of portraits of desire and sexuality’
fairytales
Vandameer
fairytales clothe themselves in stereotypes and archetypes
castle
Bunten
in many gothic novels the castle represents a threatening sexually rapacious masculine world ink which women are trapped and persecuted
man
Marie Mulvey Roberts (wolf Alice)
‘both less and more than a man’
prose
Stoddart (LHL)
‘lustrous, rich, decadent prose- which some may see as excessive’
modernity
Stoddart (LHL)
‘rationality and modernity contain its own horrors’
trangression
Marie Mulvey Roberts (UE)
‘she explores taboo and transgression through forbidden knowledge’
genre
Marie Mulvey Roberts (UE)
‘pushes the genre to its limits’
culture
Marie Mulvey Roberts (UE)
‘reveals how gender is presented in her culture’
war
Marie Mulvey Roberts
‘war itself, the ultimate vampire’
