acknowledgements
abstract
introduction
chapter one from body to subject in the rewriting of the fairy tale
i. rewriting
a. rewriting and intertextuality
b. postmodernist pastiche vs. postmodernist parody
c. modernist parody vs. postmodernist parody
d. carter's rewriting--a postmodernist parody
ii. the fairy tale
a. carter's inclusive definition of the fairy tale
b. fairy tale as a multi-layered discourse
c. carter's fairy tale--a feminist discourse
iii. subject
a. definition of subject
b. definition of the female subject
c. postmodernist debates on subject
iv. body
a. body in the western metaphysical tradition
b. michelle foucault: body as the site of power and resistance
c. feminist appropriations of foucault's theory
chapter two disrupting the submissive female subject: body as the site of power
i. objectified and fetishized body
a. the objectified body under "the eye of power" in "the snow child"
b. the cinematic fetishization of the body in the passion of new eve
ii. imprisoned body
a. carter's sleeping-beauty stories
iii. disciplined and exploited body
a. the magic toyshop
iv. violated and afflicted body
a. sadism in "the bloody chamber"
b. rape in "leda and the swan"
v. "gender trouble"
a. the transformations of evelyn and tristessa in the passion of new eve
chapter three reconstructing a more autonomous female subject: body as the site of resistance
i. alternative body against the patriarchal aesthetics
a. nights at the circus
ii. violence and murder as resistance
a. lizzie borden's parricide in "fall river axe murders"
b. doll's revenge in "the loves of lady purple"
iii. self. commodification as resistance
a. self-commodification in "the courtship of mr lyon" and "the tiger's bride"
b. seller and commodity in one in "black venus"
iv. autonomous female desire
a. "the company of wolves"
v. maternal body in power
a. mother goddess in the passion of new eve
conclusion
appendix: source texts for carter's revised texts
works cited