All Girls Want Bad Boys: Puss-in-Boots is well-aware of this trope and suggests that the best way to woo an unattainable woman is to 'convince her her orifice will be your salvation, and she's yours!'.

'Wolf-Alice' has elements of ' Beauty and the Beast', ' Little Red Riding Hood' and Alice in Wonderland.

'The Werewolf' and ' The Company of Wolves' are takes on ' Little Red Riding Hood'.

'The Snow-Child' is ' Snow White', minus the dwarfs.

'The Lady in the House of Love' is ' Sleeping Beauty'.

'The Erl-King' is based on the legend of ' The Erl-King'.

'Puss-In-Boots' is a bawdy commedia piece, inspired by ' Puss in Boots'.Lyon' and 'The Tiger's Bride' are based on ' Beauty and the Beast'. The title story is a retelling of ' Bluebeard'.Her language has an extraordinarily sensuous quality that is reflected in its continual appeals to the senses of sound, smell, taste and especially touch, as well as sight, and, as I shall demonstrate, is also manifested through the immediate aural and tactile effects of particular words and phrases.A short story anthology by Angela Carter based around the gothic retelling of old fairy tales. Yet not only the adjectival density of Carter's prose, in which almost every object, action and experience is described through parallel phrases, but also its quasi-poetic deployment of a range of linguistic techniques demands a more detailed attention to its sensory power. For most critics, somewhat surprisingly, that richness and sensuality appear to be associated primarily with evocation of the visual. But Carter's language evokes other senses beside the visual in order to seduce the reader into confronting the experience of sexuality in the patriarchal tradition. Most such scholarly comment focuses on the plots of the stories and, in the case of the title story - a rewrite of 'Bluebeard' - on its powerful visual imagery, to support arguments about the implications of Carter's work. 194-203 RelationĬambridge Scholars Publishing Resource Type book chapter Date 2009 Description Angela Carter's subversive rewriting of traditional European fairy tales in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) has been extensively studied for its radical treatment of gender and sexuality. Title The language of the senses: Angela Carter's 'The bloody chamber' and the seduction of the reader Creator

In the bloody chamber