A Historical Reading of Angela Carter’s «The Scarlet House»
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https://doi.org/10.17398/2660-7301.43.25Keywords:
Angela Carter, The Scarlet House, History, Philosophy of History, PostmodernityAbstract
Angela Carter's work has been usually studied from feminist points of view and from postmodernist aspects as the rewriting of fairy tales. Without denying this fact, this paper wants to underline the importance of History in Angela Carter's work focusing on the analysis of her short story «The Scarlet House». Carter's ideas on History, most of them framed in postmodernity, can find a suitable place among different theories within philosophy of History, something which will allow a historical reading of this short story. This type of interpretation was admitted by Carter herself when she accepted the multiplicity of readings for the same literary work.
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