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'The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories' Critical Quotes
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- 1‘Her adaptations of traditional fairy tales sought to subvert the patriarchal leanings of the stories’Anon
- 2'Strong bond between mother and daughter'Ellen Conran Rose
- 3‘Hers is not an easy feminism’Elaine Jordan
- 4‘This long story subtly links the fairy tale, Gothic literature, and pornographic literature’Rebecca Laroche
- 5‘her Marquis belongs to a latter-day generation of Bluebeard’s progeny’Rebecca Laroche
- 6‘A true Gothic heroine, like Carter’s, goes where she should not’Rebecca Laroche
- 7‘Passivity is never a virtue, in fact, even - especially not- in women’Helen Simpson
- 8‘Some of their most beautiful passages are about metamorphosis’Helen Simpson
- 9‘The imminence of death pervades her work’Rosemary Hill
- 10‘Her main concern is to subvert the conventional ideologies and replace them with feminist ones’Su Na Choi
- 11‘Carter challenges patriarchal society with a devilish passion and dexterity’Anon
- 12'Otherness takes center stage’Fred Botting
- 13‘It is the women who become active and saviours, not the men’Merja Makinen
- 14‘The heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straightjacket of history and ideology’Helen Simpson
- 15‘The animal aspects of human nature are her particular concern’Duncker
- 16‘Carter's work has consistently dealt with representations of the physical abuse of women.’Merja Makinen
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- A-Level English literature Flashcards on 'The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories' Critical Quotes, created by Ellie Hope on 21/06/2017.
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