Playing the Female Fool: Metamorphoses of the Fool from Fireworks to The Bloody Chamber

This article looks at the representation of the fool in the first two short story collections by Angela Carter, namely Fireworks (1974) and The Bloody Chamber (1979). Its central argument is that the quintessentially subversive presence of the fool is theorized and developed in Carter’s earlier sho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cristina Di Maio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2020-11-01
Series:Altre Modernità
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/14519