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T1 No more lullabies for foolish virgins: Angela Carter and "The Erl-King"
A1 Rodríguez Salas, Gerardo
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB 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.
SN 0210-9689
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17379
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17379
LA spa
NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2010, N.31, pags.223-231
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024