(精选)英美短篇小 说Unit 10 The Company of Wolves课件.pptVIP

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 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 reference to the conventions of fables, myths, and allegory. Of the four terms,?Magical realism?is the most commonly used and refers to literature in particular that portrays magical or unreal elements as a natural part in an otherwise realistic or mundane environment. Or in other words, it is a kind of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the “reliable” tone of objective realistic report. The realistic mingles with the unexpected. The fantastic attributes given to characters are among the means that magic realism adopts in order to encompass the often phantasmagoric