Title: "A different logic": animals, transformation, and rationality in Angela Carter's "The Tiger's Bride"
Creator: Webb, Caroline; Hopcroft, Helen
Relation: Marvels and Tales Vol. 31, Issue 2, p. 313-337
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/marvelstales.31.2.0314
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: We examine the typical treatment of the beast transformation in Western European fairy tales and consider how this may reflect the sociohistorical realities of human-animal relationships. In particular, we discuss Angela Carter's treatment of the "Beauty and the Beast" story in "The Tiger's Bride" (1979), which emphasizes the protagonist's rationality, in relation to central ideas from the animal studies movement. Carter's story provides a profound critique of the post-Enlightenment, postagrarian culture in which men perceive women and animals as not merely objects of consumption but objects of exchange. Her tale proposes a worldview in which the animals, like female humans, must be respected as subjects.
Subject: animals; transformation; Western European fairy tales; Angela Carter; The Tiger's Bride
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1384617
Identifier: uon:32115
Identifier: ISSN:1521-4281
Language: eng
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"A different logic": animals, transformation, and rationality in Angela Carter's "The Tiger's Bride"