OCR: Paper 2 The Gothic comparative text
In her short story collection The Bloody Chamber (1979), Angela Carter aimed to ‘extract the latent content from the traditional stories’ (Haffenden 1985), revisiting sources from European folklore, fairy tale and Gothic fiction. While each of The Bloody Chamber’s postmodern tales inhabits a different world, ambiguous relationships between the monstrous and the human constitute one of the shared preoccupations that bind together the stories within the volume. The fairy-tale narratives from which Carter worked do not themselves share an easily defined morality or understanding of the world and her deliberately subversive and intertextual style compounds the uncertainties which keep both writers and readers returning to stories of monsters, whether in fiction or on screen.
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