The Bloody Chamber Pt 1 by Angela Carter read by A Poetry Channel скачать в хорошем качестве

The Bloody Chamber Pt 1 by Angela Carter read by A Poetry Channel

Part 1 of 2, and our celebration of all things Halloween continues with the phenomenal Angela Carter whose eroto-gothic tales of horror have fired off many a ganglion for decades with all their thrills and chills. Built on the storyline of the traditional fairy tale “Bluebeard,” Angela Carter’s short story “The Bloody Chamber” (1979) contains striking alterations in the use of the first-person narrator, ambivalent and complex characterization, explicit sexual description and a revised ending; all of which have given rise to heated arguments among feminist scholars and literary critics. By focusing on gender issues in the short story and using the narrative structures of these genres as a framework, Carter’s ingenious revision of the norms becomes a sharper critique of the restrictions of the traditional genres, as well as the oppressive social ideologies hidden in them. First published in 1979, Angela Carter’s short story collection The Bloody Chamber is “often—wrongly—described as a group of traditional fairy tales given a subversive feminist twist”. Carter explained in an interview, however, that such was not the case—“my intention was not to do “versions” or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, “adult” fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories and to use it as the beginnings of new stories”. Her assertion is reasonable enough because while it’s inspired by the traditional fairytale of Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard” or “La Barbe Bleue” it is very much a tale of feminine liberation. If you enjoy my readings and would like to support the channel, you can buy me a cup of coffee : https://buymeacoffee.com/lorigomez_ap...