TBC AO3 + AO5 Flashcards
Dunker
- ending of TBC has ‘uncompromisingly feminist message’ whereas other tales ‘merely recapitulate patriarchal patterns of behaviour’
-‘Carter envisages women’s sensuality simply as a response to male arousal’
2nd wave feminism history
1961: contraceptive pill introduced
1970: equal pay act
1975: sexual discrimination act
Derridean theory
a work’s meaning is unstable, can have many/multiple meanings
Buzwell
fairy tales/folklore as a ‘traditional framework upon which modern fears can be explored’
Carter
‘I’m all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode’
‘to exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case’
Simpson
‘the heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straightjackets of history and ideology and biological essentialism’
Gordon
‘fine line between human and animal nature’
Carter’s notes on the Gothic mode
Gothic deals directly with imagery of the unconscious
e.g mirrors in TBC, forbidden sexual objects in TSC, haunted forests in TCOW
Bettleheim’s ‘The Uses of Enchantment’
fairy tales represent in imaginative form what the process of healthy human development consists of’
Kristeva’s ‘the abject’
something that is so repulsive or disturbing that it threatens sense of self and identity
e.g boundary transgression, primal fear, relationship between repulsion + fascination
Day
‘Carter’s fiction is a bit extreme’
Dworkin
Carter is a ‘pseudo feminist’
Lau
‘oppressive patriarchal discourse’
Winterson
Carter changes fairy tales, making them into ‘something that give women back the power’ and turns them ‘inside out’
Lokke
‘Carter’s voice is a voice of self-assertion’
Vandermeer
‘fairytales clothe themselves in stereotypes and archetypes’
Carter’s ‘The Sadeian Woman’
explores Marquis controversial ideas (sexually violent works) can be interpreted as liberating for women through feminist perspective
Innocence in Lady of the House of Love
often attributed to females in Gothic so interesting that is is attributed to a male
Countess is both the femme fatale and the Gothic victim
Carter’s views on pornography
highlights it could be used to overturn the ‘contempt for women that distorts our culture’
Carter’s views on damsels in distress
critical of this depiction and archetype
Perrault Little Red Riding Hood
wolf eats girl: venturing from prescribed path of morality means you get what you deserve
Carter in Japan
worked as a waitress and observed how women seemed complicit in their objectification
Wood
main function of TBC is ‘destabilising the figure of a woman as a purely passive object of the male gaze’
Marquis de Sade and The Sadeian Woman
explores how his controversial ideas (sexually violent works) could be liberating for women
