2026-05-05T20:03:39Zhttps://uvadoc.uva.es/oai/requestoai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/173792021-06-30T08:11:04Zcom_10324_5343com_10324_5186com_10324_29291col_10324_5348
UVaDOC
author
Rodríguez Salas, Gerardo
editor
Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
2016-06-22T16:20:23Z
2016-06-22T16:20:23Z
2010
ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2010, N.31, pags.223-231
0210-9689
http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17379
223
31
231
Angela Carter's fiction has been generally acclaimed for her "Rabelaisian humor and linguistic exuberance." However, the same critics who praise these stylistic traits in Carter call attention to an alleged political weakness in the narrative strategies used by the British writer. The present study uses her story "The Erl-King", included in the collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979), to explore Carter's intentional ambiguity in providing her fictional women with a voice of their own. Departing from an alternative musical discourse and subversive intertextual references to "The Erl-King" and "Little Red Riding Hood", Carter creates an illusory setting in the heart of the forest that both deconstructs the patriarchal subjugation of women and holds them hostage in a stagnant dream. This dyad justifies the contradictory opinions among her critics and endows Carter with her unique way of building an alternative type of feminism.
spa
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Filología Inglesa
No more lullabies for foolish virgins: Angela Carter and "The Erl-King"
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
URL
https://uvadoc.uva.es/bitstream/10324/17379/1/ES-2010-31-NoMoreLullabies.pdf
File
MD5
b86e91d36326f45786a72db80a174045
123244
application/pdf
ES-2010-31-NoMoreLullabies.pdf