Angela Carter’s «Puss-in-Boots»: Commedia dell’arte meets the Bluebeard story
In the short-story «Puss-in-Boots» Angela Carter rewrites Charles Perrault’s classic «Le Chat Botté». She enhances the comic element by constructing it in the vein of commedia dell’arte which at the end subverts the up-coming uxoricide and the «Bluebeard» Leitmotiv. The combination of humour and th...
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| Language: | English |
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UA Editora
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Forma Breve |
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| Online Access: | https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/formabreve/article/view/7895 |
| Summary: | In the short-story «Puss-in-Boots» Angela Carter rewrites Charles Perrault’s classic «Le Chat Botté». She enhances the comic element by constructing it in the vein of commedia dell’arte which at the end subverts the up-coming uxoricide and the «Bluebeard» Leitmotiv. The combination of humour and the terrible represents yet another form of the Carterian grotesque abounding in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.
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| ISSN: | 1645-927X 2183-4709 |