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Article: Fairy tale as sexual allegory: intertextuality in Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber.' (Angela Carter)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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- September 22, 1994
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ANGELA CARTER, IN HER 1990 introduction to The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book, makes a distinction between folklore, emerging from oral "unofficial" culture, and the fairy tale, product of a literary "official" culture. Folklore, she explains, is anonymous and fluid, resulting in "stories without known originators that can be remade again and again by every person who tells them, the perennially refreshed entertainment of the poor" (ix). Literary fairy tales, on the other hand, according to Carter, transformed an oral tradition into texts that become middle-class commodities. This analysis accords with Jack Zipes's economic reading of fairy tales in Breaking the Magic Spell: ...
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