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I argue that Plato’s parable of the cave is one of the intertexts employed in Angela Carter’s short story “The Lady of the House of Love.” Drawing on Luce Irigaray’s reading of Plato’s allegory, I explore Carter’s critique of femininity as a condition associated with mimetic processes that imprison women. I also propose a reading of intertextuality as a liberatory practice.

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This page is a summary of: A Vampire in Plato’s Cave: Mimesis, Anamorphosis, and Simulacra in Angela Carter’s “The Lady of the House of Love”, Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction, July 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2016.1141390.
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