The Bloody Chamber | Fairy Tale as Sexual Allegory: Intertextuality in Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber"
In the following excerpt, Kaiser examines Carter's use of intertextuality and the sexual symbolism in ''The Bloody Chamber.''
As Carter suggests in her introduction to The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book, intertextuality was embedded into the history of the fairy tale when Charles Perrault, the Grimm Brothers, and other compilers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transposed oral folk tales into fairy tales. This transfer involved what [Julia] Kristeva refers to as ‘‘a new articulation of the thetic,’’ as the politics, economics, fashions, and prejudices of a sophisticated culture replaced the values of rural culture that form the context of oral folklore [Revolution in Poetic Language,...
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