英美短篇小 说Unit 10 The Company of Wolves

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Unit 10,Company of Wolves,-Angela Carter,Outline,About the author,Warm-up questions,Textual analysis,Critical response and impact,About the author-Angela Carter,(1940-1992),Life experience,English novelist and journalist,Born in Eastbourne,England and suffered anorexia(,厌食症,)as a teenager,Began to work as a,journalist,on the,Croydon Advertiser,after attendingStreatham&Clapham High School in south London,following in the footsteps of her father.,Attended theUniversity of Bristolwhere she studied English literature,Spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a,writer in residence at universities,including theUniversity of Sheffield,Brown University,theUniversity of Adelaide,and theUniversity of East Anglia.,Died of,lung cancer,in 1991,Awards and honors,The Magic Toyshop(1967),?魔幻玩具铺?，获约翰勒维林里斯奖,Several Perceptions(1968),?数种直觉?，获桑姆塞毛姆奖,Nights at the Circus(1984),?马戏团之夜?，获詹姆斯泰特布莱克文学奖,Undertook the work as jury of The Man Booker Prize(布克奖)in 1983,Ranked tenth in the list of“The 50 greatestBritish writers since 1945 in The Times in 2021,Writing features,Feminist writer:reworking of myth and fairy tale from a feminist point of view,“transfigure.the classical fairy tale so that the story line remains the same but a different set of values is introduced.,“I am all for putting new wine in old bottles,especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the old bottles explode.,Sexual liberty of women,Divided critical opinions over,the role of the erotic,in Carters works:,(1)Womens sexuality as a means to assert themselves,(2)Close to pornography,Exponent of,magical realism,(adding Gothic themes,violence and eroticism),Female Gothic,Magical Realism,Magical realism,magic realism,or,marvelous realism,is literature,painting and film that,while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts,share in common an acceptance of magic in the rational world.It is also sometimes called,fabulism,in reference to the conventions of fables,myths,and allegory.,Of the four terms,Magical realism,is the most commonly used and refers to,literature in particular that portrays magical or unreal elements as a natural part in an otherwise realistic or mundane environment,.,Or in other words,it is a kind of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the“reliable tone of objective realistic report.,The realistic mingles with the unexpected.,The fantastic attributes given to characters are among the means that magic realism adopts in order to encompass the often phantasmagoric(幻影似的,变幻不定的)political realities of the 20th century.,Important Works,Novels,Shadow Dance,(1966),The Magic Toyshop,(1967),Several Perceptions,(1968),Heroes and Villains,(1969),Poetry collections,Five Quiet Shouters,(1966),Unicorn,(1966),Love,(1971),The Passion of New Eve,(1977),Nights at the Circus,(1984),Wise Children,(1991),Short story collections,Fireworks:Nine Profane Pieces,(1974)also published as,Fireworks:Nine Stories in Various Disguises,and,Fireworks,The Bloody Chamber,(1979),The Bridegroom,(1983)(Uncollected short story),Black Venus,(1985)published as,Saints and Strangers,(US),American Ghosts and Old World Wonders,(1993),Burning Your Boats,(1995),Warm-up questions,How do you understand the title“The Company of Wolves?,Analyze the characteristics of the girl in the last story of the novel.,What do you think of the ending of this novel?,Textual Analysis,Background information,Plot summary,Theme analysis,Image analysis,Background Information,The Company of Wolves is a short story by Angela Carter,one of the ten stories in The Bloody Chamber(orThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories).It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1979 byGollancz and won theCheltenham Festival Literary Prize.All of the stories share a common theme of being closely based uponfairy talesorfolk tales.However,Angela Carter has stated:,“My intention was not to do versions or,as the American edition of the book said,horribly,adultfairy tales,but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories.,The anthology contains ten stories:,The Bloody Chamber,The Courtship of Mr Lyon,The Tigers Bride,Puss-in-Boots,The Erl-King,The Snow Child,The Lady of the House of Love,The Werewolf,The Company of Wolves,and,Wolf-Alice,.,The tales vary greatly in length,with thenovelette,The Bloody Chamber,being more than twice the length of any of the other stories,and more than thirty times the length of the shortest thevignette,The Snow Child,.,The anthologys contents are also reprinted in Carters,Burning Your Boats,.,Plot Summary,The stories within,The Bloody Chamber,are explicitly based on fairy tales.And in terms of the story,The Company of Wolves,it is a dramatic adaptation of the classical fairy tale,Little Red Ridding Hood,and can be divided into two parts according to its contents.,The first part mainly focuses on,wolves nature and inherent traits,with,t