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…imagery derived from subterranean areas behind
everyday experience.
Angela Carter 1974 from ‘Fireworks’
…Gothic tales, cruel tales, tales of wonder, tales of terror,
fabulous narratives that deal directly with the imagery of the
unconscious.
Angela Carter 1974 from ‘Fireworks’
The Bloody Chamber uses the story form… obliquely,
variously, from ten strikingly different angles.
Helen Simpson, 2006 in the Introduction to The Bloody
Chamber
…a variety of portraits of desire and sexuality
Helen Simpson, 2006 in the Introduction to The Bloody
Chamber
Carter was later to come under attack for not busting enough
taboos than she did.
Helen Simpson, 2006 in the Introduction to The Bloody
Chamber
…elicits furious hostility from a significant number of students.
Helen Simpson, 2006 in the Introduction to The Bloody
Chamber
She loved to describe the rich trappings of luxury, to display rich scenery in rich language.
Helen Simpson, 2006 in the Introduction to The Bloody
Chamber
To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case.
To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case – that is to
be killed.This is the moral of the fairy tale
about the perfect woman.
Angela Carter in an epigraph of The Sadeian Women
Images of meat, naked flesh, fur, snow, menstruation, mirrors and
roses recur fugue-like throughout, giving these stories an
unmistakable family resemblance, different thought they are from each
other in approach.
Helen Simpson, 2006 in the Introduction to The Bloody
Chamber