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An Analysis of the Images in Angela Carter’s Short Stories from the Perspective of Female Gothic

Authors
Zhang Ti1, *
1English, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin, 300011, China
*Corresponding author. Email: zhangti831@yeah.net
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Zhang Ti
Available Online 31 December 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_59How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Gothic; Female Gothic; imagery; feminism; genre
Abstract

Interpreting literature from a gender perspective has profound implications for feminist development. The collision of contemporary Gothic studies with feminist waves has produced the introduction of the concept of the Female Gothic. It triggered a large number of scholars to reread and reinterpret the classic texts, but only a relatively small number of studies have focused on the deeper meanings of the various imagery in the texts. This paper will take two of Angela Carter’s short stories as examples to analyse in depth the Gothic fiction imagery in them and the rich symbolism behind it. Analysing three representative images from Carter’s novel, which includes castle, darkness, and flower, and comparing them with the use of imagery in previous Gothic novels and Female Gothic novels written before her work completes Carter’s inheritance of and transcendence of the genre and the concept of the Female Gothic novel, resulting in a distinctive style that is uniquely her own.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 5th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 December 2023
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10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_59
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_59How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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