ANGELA CARTER’S THE BLOODY CHAMBER: A FEMINIST STYLISTIC APPROACH
Öz
Stylistics, the study of a writer’s style, has incorporated various approaches, especially in the last few decades. Therefore, feminist stylistics based on the theories of feminist criticism appears as a significant approach defining “woman” and her place not only in society, but also in language. By examining male domination in society and literary works, feminist stylistics tries to present a counter-image of women both in language and social construction. The tendency of current feminist stylistics mostly focuses on the idea that there is a significant “women’s writing and style” that differs from men’s. These linguistic and thematic differences that are called “genderlect” or “gendered sentence” in women’s writing are the main interest of feminist stylistics. This study will depict the “genderlect” and “gendered” style in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber.
Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, a collection of re-written traditional fairy tales, “extracts the latent content from the traditional stories” in Carter’s words. Ten stories in the collection handle the topics of marriage, sexuality, gender roles, and female liberty with a subverting point of view. In this article, three stories narrated by female first-person narrators in this collection will be analyzed in terms of lexico-semantic items in the narration, and Carter’s style as an example of écriture féminine will be examined with regard to feminist stylistics.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
- Brooke, Patricia. (2004). “ Lyons and Tigers and Wolves-Oh My! Revisionary Fairy Tales in the Work of Angela Carter”. Critical Survey (Oxford, England), Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 67-88.
- Carter, Angela. (1998a). “Notes from the Frontline”. Critical Essays on Angela Carter (Ed. Lindsey Tucker). New York: Hall. 24–32. (1998b). Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (Ed. Jenny Uglow). New York&London: Penguin Books. (1981). The Bloody Chamber. England: Penguin Books. (1978). The Sadeian Woman and The Ideology of Pornography. New York: Pantheon Books.
- Cook, Hera. (2014). “Angela Carter's ‘The Sadeian Woman’ and Female Desire in England 1960–1975”. Women's History Review, 23:6, pp. 938-956.
- Eagleton, Terry. (2003). After Theory. New York: Basic Books.
- Haffenden, John. (1985). “Angela Carter”. Novelists in Interview. New York: Methuen Press.
- Joannou, Maroula. (2007). “Rereading Angela Carter”. Women: A Cultural Review, 18:1, pp. 110-2.
- Kaiser, Mary. (1994). “Fairy Tale as Sexual Allegory: Intertextuality in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber”. The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp.30-6.
- Lacan, Jacques. (1977). The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XI The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller), (Trans. Alan Sheridan). New York-London: W. W. Norton&Company.
Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
-
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Temmuz 2016
Gönderilme Tarihi
4 Şubat 2016
Kabul Tarihi
26 Haziran 2016
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2016 Cilt: 26 Sayı: 2
Cited By
Feminist stylistic analysis and LGBTQA+ representation in Lady Gaga’s born this way
JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature)
https://doi.org/10.33369/joall.v7i1.20044FEMINIST STYLISTICS IN AHDAF SOUEIF’S AISHA
Fırat Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
https://doi.org/10.18069/firatsbed.1260193Gender, Genre and the Female Gothic: Resisting Patriarchal Norms in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
The Journal of International Scientific Researches
https://doi.org/10.23834/isrjournal.1292294