英美短篇小 说Unit 10 The Company of Wolves.ppt

Unit 10 Company of Wolves ---- Angela Carter Outline About the author Warm-up questions Textual analysis Critical response and impact About the author---Angela Carter (1940-1992) Life experience English novelist and journalist Born in Eastbourne, England and suffered anorexia(厌食症) as a teenager Began to work as a journalist on the?Croydon Advertiser after attending?Streatham & Clapham High School in south London, following in the footsteps of her father. Attended the?University of Bristol?where she studied English literature Spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer in residence at universities, including the?University of Sheffield,?Brown University, the?University of Adelaide, and the?University of East Anglia. Died of lung cancer in 1991 Awards and honors  The Magic Toyshop (1967) 《魔幻玩具铺》，获约翰?勒维林?里斯奖 Several Perceptions (1968) 《数种直觉》，获桑姆塞?毛姆奖 Nights at the Circus (1984) 《马戏团之夜》，获詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克文学奖 Undertook the work as jury of The Man Booker Prize(布克奖) in 1983 Ranked tenth in the list of “The 50 greatest?British writers since 1945” in The Times in 2008 Writing features Feminist writer: reworking of myth and fairy tale from a feminist point of view “transfigure….the classical fairy tale so that the story line remains the same but a different set of values is introduced.” “I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the old bottles explode.” Sexual liberty of women Divided critical opinions over the role of the erotic in Carter’s works: (1) Women’s sexuality as a means to assert themselves (2) Close to pornography Exponent of magical realism (adding Gothic themes, violence and eroticism) Female Gothic Magical Realism Magical realism,?magic realism,?or?marvelous realism?is literature, painting and film that, while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, share in common an acceptance of magic in the rational world. It is also sometimes called?fabulism,?in referen