“The Lady of the House of Love” y “The Scarlet House” de Angela Carter: el conocimiento histórico y la caverna de Platón

• Álvarez Castaño, Emilio José ^[1]
  1. [1] Shandong University

     Shandong University

     China

     
• Localización: Epos: Revista de filología, ISSN 0213-201X, Nº 37, 2021, págs. 13-33
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5944/epos.37.2021.28828
• Títulos paralelos:
  • “The Lady of the House of Love” and “The Scarlet House” by Angela Carter: Historical Knowledge and Plato's Cave
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  • español

    La obra de Angela Carter ha sido estudiada habitualmente desde el feminismo y el postmodernismo. Sin negar este hecho, el presente artículo quiere destacar la importancia de la Historia en la obra de Carter centrándose en el análisis de sus relatos “The Lady of the House of Love” y “The Scarlet House”. Las ideas que tenía Carter al respecto, enmarcadas muchas de ellas en la postmodernidad, pueden encontrar acomodo en diferentes aproximaciones dentro de la filosofía de la Historia, lo que permitiría una interpretación en clave histórica de estas dos narraciones, un hecho que la propia Carter admite al aceptar la multiplicidad de lecturas en una obra literaria. Puesto que las protagonistas de ambos relatos están confinadas en espacios que desean abandonar, se destaca en dicho contexto la relevancia de la caverna de Platón.

  • English

    Angela Carter’s work has been usually studied from the perspective of feminism and postmodernism. Without denying this fact, this paper wants to underline the importance of History in Angela Carter’s work focusing on the analysis of her short stories “The Lady of the House of Love” and “The Scarlet House”. Carter´s ideas on this issue, most of them framed in postmodernity, can find a suitable place among different approaches within the philosophy of History, something which will allow a historical reading of these two short stories. This type of interpretation was admitted by Carter herself when she accepted the multiplicity of readings for the same literary work. Since the protagonists of both stories are confined to spaces they wish to abandon, the relevance of Plato’s cave stands out in this context.

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