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Author: By Lyn DI Iorio, | Title: Of Feminists and Fairy Tales | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

Critics charge that this complaining has become complaisant, excessively feminist, predictable. Bluebeard's Egg, the most recent collection of fiction by the Canadian, Margaret Atwood, may be a case in point...

Author: By Lyn DI Iorio, | Title: Of Feminists and Fairy Tales | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

...story like "The Sunrise" typifies the problem with all the stories in Bluebeard's Egg. The women all, somehow, behave with condescension. The men all, somehow, are satisfied with these truncated relationships. After a while the women meld together into one composite character; you forget all her temporary names as soon as you've finished the last story. She is simply the Atwood bitch...

Author: By Lyn DI Iorio, | Title: Of Feminists and Fairy Tales | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

Carter loves to recreate old stories. That is her hallmark, despite the fact that she is often marketed as a feminist. A previous collection of her short stories, The Bloody Chamber, includes Carter's elaborate versions of Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, and Puss in Boots...

Author: By Lyn DI Iorio, | Title: Of Feminists and Fairy Tales | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

...fine if convicted on the U.S. charges. He offered courtroom observers little more than the traditional stiff upper lip. "I've got confidence in the American justice system to find me as innocent as I am," he said. "I'm really not a Bluebeard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Shots Feel the Heat | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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