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Angela Carter`s Fairy Tale: Myths of Gender and Sexuality
Pyshkin, Dmitry ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Znojemská, Helena (referee)
This thesis attempts to analyze in what manner Angela Carter subverts the classical fairy tale`s discourse as regards its portrayal of sexuality, and affords the readers a new perspective on the genre that has never been thoroughly addressed. In the first chapter, I have commented on the objectives Carter pursues in the framework of her revisionist project while choosing the fairy tale as its primary basis, and the way the writer approaches the discussion of the genre as a repository of mythical constructions, as understood by a French literary scholar and philologist, Roland Barthes. In the following chapters, I have focused on different manifestations of human sexuality that Carter depicts in her work, namely the sexuality of subjugation and domination, sexuality of reciprocity and otherness, as well as the problematics inherent in the phenomenon as such. Key words Angela Carter, fairy tale, myth, narrative myth, political myth, sexuality, demythologization
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On the Interface between Thematic Progressions and Cohesive Ties in Selected Modern Short Stories and a Fairy Tale
Malá, Lucie ; Pípalová, Renata (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
This thesis focuses on the comparison of two short stories by Angela Carter with the fairy tale on which they are based. It attempts to discern to what extent the author preserved the structure of the fairy tale, as viewed from a linguistic point of view, in her short stories. The thesis also suggests an interpretation of the motivation and effect of the divergences of the structure of the short stories from that of the fairy tale. The three texts are analysed from three points of view: thematic progressions, discourse subjects and cohesive chains, and cohesive ties. Attention is payed first to the description of the individual texts, and then to the comparison of the three texts. The comparison puts emphasis on the distinction between the shorts stories on one hand and the fairy tale on the other hand. The comparison shows that the structure of the fairy tale is to a large extent retained in the short stories, as they share characteristics on all the three levels of analysis. The short stories were found to differ from the fairy tale in two main respects, connected to each other, which influence the differences in their structure: the age of the intended reader, and the context and setting of the story.
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