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Feminist metafiction and androcentric reading strategies: Angela Carter's reconstructed reader in 'Nights at the Circus.'
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CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
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September 22, 1995
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Metafiction seems to be a good technique for feminist writers to subvert the traditional literary conventions and structure. However, it is double-coded: it legitimizes what it subverts. The double code also makes the work subject to misreadings since readers/critics often are unable to fulfill the role of the hypothetical audience, an interpretive community without the normalized techniques of academic reading so replete with masculinist bias. Angela Carter's metafiction exposes the male bias in both literary and cultural constructions. One finds this in 'Nights at the Circus' which transforms the patriarchal literary representations of women from Classical times on. However, it did not ...
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