| The works of British female writer Angela Carter are full of incredible brilliant elements of fairy tale. She loved all those fairy tales original from folk tales, happy to collected different kinds of fairy tales from all over the world, and she also loved to ise them into her works. She is a collector, as well as a creator.Fairy tale, a special kind of text born with the power of tease the authority, which helped a lot in Carter's dared writing of modern novels. On the one hand, Carter was not satisfied with the situation that the vivid life of fairy tales are fluid, her novels' subversion and parody of classic fairy tales were to give the life of them back, by using the carnivalesque and vulgar language; On the other hand, she kept using the images and plots from fairy tales as a basic tool to subvert classic texts, to fade the seriousness of classic texts by using light narrative and funny attitude; by meanings of deconstructed the classic texts, she brought out questions and challenges.The subversion was by no means the ending, but a new start. Carter tried to melt the elements of fairy tales into modern life, to find out the soil of its growing. Putting the old fairy tales into a background of modern city, or using experimental novel to mold the different ending of the story, even re-editing fairy tale books, these are all efforts that Carter had done. Carter's recreation of fairy tales was not a conclusion, but a experience of bring out questions and searching for answers. By the way of question the classic fairy tales and subversion of classic text, and also by putting the real life into old story, the elements of fairy tale were reborn beneath Carter's pen. |
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