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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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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| spelling | doaj.art-4d3f579825ff40dc925fe3d10f218b712023-11-23T05:57:38ZengUA EditoraForma Breve1645-927X2183-47092004-01-01210.34624/fb.v0i2.7895Angela Carter’s «Puss-in-Boots»: Commedia dell’arte meets the Bluebeard storyMaria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia0University of Aveiro 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. https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/formabreve/article/view/7895Angela Carter«Puss-in-Boots»commedia dell’arte«Bluebeard»the grotesque |
| spellingShingle | Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia Angela Carter’s «Puss-in-Boots»: Commedia dell’arte meets the Bluebeard story Forma Breve Angela Carter «Puss-in-Boots» commedia dell’arte «Bluebeard» the grotesque |
| title | Angela Carter’s «Puss-in-Boots»: Commedia dell’arte meets the Bluebeard story |
| title_full | Angela Carter’s «Puss-in-Boots»: Commedia dell’arte meets the Bluebeard story |
| title_fullStr | Angela Carter’s «Puss-in-Boots»: Commedia dell’arte meets the Bluebeard story |
| title_full_unstemmed | Angela Carter’s «Puss-in-Boots»: Commedia dell’arte meets the Bluebeard story |
| title_short | Angela Carter’s «Puss-in-Boots»: Commedia dell’arte meets the Bluebeard story |
| title_sort | angela carter s puss in boots commedia dell arte meets the bluebeard story |
| topic | Angela Carter «Puss-in-Boots» commedia dell’arte «Bluebeard» the grotesque |
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