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The Bloody Chamber, "I saw myself as I could have wished to be" …
The Bloody Chamber
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Context:
genre
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Revised fairy-tale, Magical realism
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folk tales vs fairy tales, fairy tales became them when written for elite - register + narrative changes, now clean/proper/appropriate
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setting
takes place in a vague setting, mythical past
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“A deliberate homage to Colette“ (Carter’s letter) - Marquis also influenced by Monsieur Willy, character
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Bluebeard
remake of this story, instead of mother saving her daughter, its brother
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story of a wealthy man who recurrently murdered his wives and the attempts of one of these women to avoid the fate of her predecessors
influenced Anglo-Saxon language - a man who marries and kills one wife after another, "Bluebearding" a way to describe crim of killing a series of women/seducing + abandoning them
postmodern
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for the masses - critiquing consumerism + mass-produced products, art into consumer
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not outside of consumer culture - high/low culture, media transforms people
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intertextuality, rewritings + revisions
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