![]() ![]() The dizzying nature of Carter’s writing can make us feel like our heroine in the story, wandering in an unknown castle, cut off from land as the tide comes in. It’s simultaneously rapturous and horrifying. Her language, as Zoe Enser said in a tweet last week, is enveloping. She throws us into the landscape of the story where we, like our heroine in ‘The Bloody Chamber’, are curious explorers. I’d forgotten how frequently she makes us teeter between wit and horror, between the home and hell. ![]() As both a teacher of English and a fiction writer who enjoys exploring the liminal space between the real and surreal in my writing, it was a joy to revisit Carter’s sublime, uneasy language. The seminar was led by Dr Karina Jakubowicz and Dr Trudi Tate. Recently I reread ‘The Bloody Chamber’ for an online seminar on domesticity and danger in the story. ![]()
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