The Bloody Chamber critics Flashcards
1
Q
'’I was taking the latent content of those traditional stories and using that; and the latent content is violently sexual’’
A
Angela Carter on her writing
Latent means undeveloped - using fairy tales etc to explore different themes
2
Q
'’pleasing her audience by providing them with a comfortably reassuring read did not feature on her list of priorities’’
A
Sarah Gamble in her book on Carter’s work
3
Q
“fired by the conviction that human nature is not immutable, that human beings are capable of change”
A
Helen Simpon
4
Q
Carter challenges the notion that there is such a thing as an unchanging human nature”
A
Sarah Roberts
