![]() I demonstrate here that Rice and Carter explore the potential of abjection of the vampire and the subversive potential of a gothic representation of life experiences to question and subvert in their works patriarchal ideologies about the issues of sexuality and gender. ![]() My analysis of this corpus is based on four approaches: a comparison between Carter’s and Rice’s works, supported by their common use of vampire characters an investigation of how this use consists of a particular way of exploring gothic elements, related to the contemporary context an identification of the mechanisms through which this use of vampire characters conveys discourses on the issues of sexuality and gender in the 1970s and 1980s and an investigation of the possibility for the vampire characters to express such discourses, in terms of their symbolisms. ![]() My corpus is composed of Carter’s short stories “The Loves of Lady Purple” and “The Lady of the House of Love” and of Rice’s novels The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. In this thesis, I provide an analysis of Angela Carter’s and Anne Rice’s works based on their depiction of vampires. ![]()
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