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    A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves"
    A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves"
    A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves"
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    A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves"

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    A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781535846097
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      A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves" - Gale

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      The Company of Wolves

      Angela Carter

      1977

      Introduction

      Angela Carter is a British author whose style evolved from realism to fantastic narrative modes ranging from science fiction to fairy tales, employed in postmodern and feminist ways. Though a very popular writer in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Carter was often left out of discussions of the best British writers of the later twentieth century, despite the commendations offered by one of the cream of that crop and a friend of hers, Salman Rushdie. While Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, and Julian Barnes all won or were short-listed for the Booker Prize, Carter was never short-listed—a fact she suspected was explained by her being a woman.

      If any book of Carter's deserved to make the Booker list, it was perhaps her most popular, The Bloody Chamber (1979), a bold set of reimagined fairy tales drawn from the likes of Beauty and the Beast and Little Red Riding Hood. The latter tale, about a girl in red encountering a wolf in disguise at her grandmother's house, is the foundation for The Company of Wolves, the title of which points toward its shifted perspective.

      In Carter's version of the tale, verbal flourishes help transport the reader to a surreal realm as transformations alter the circumstances, sense, and outcome of the original. A fairly avant-garde feminist, Carter had much to say about women's sexuality, and she brings the carnal undertones of Little Red Riding Hood's adventure to the fore, and to a new level. These facets, along with some startling reports of mutilation and murder—in the grimmer fairy-tale style—make the story best suited to mature audiences. The story was first published in the literary magazine Bananas in the spring of 1977. It can also be found in Carter's Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (1996).

      Author Biography

      Angela Olive Stalker was born in Eastbourne, England, on May 7, 1940, the second child of the family. She grew up in South London, where her father was an editor for London's Press Association. Her mother, originally from the Yorkshire mining district, was so orthodox in her beliefs as to

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