The Female Gender as Threat: «La mujer alta» [The Tall Woman], by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, and «La mujer sin cara» [The Woman Without a Face], by Emilio Carrere

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Mohamed Ben Slama

The presence of the female gender as a threatening element is a feature common to both stories to be studied: La mujer alta (1881) and La mujer sin cara (1923). The two stories were written by two different writers belonging to two different eras, each of which has its own peculiarities. The first belongs to the realistic school whereas the second is marked by the beginning of the twentieth century and the advent of modernism. Beyond this literary evolution, we are in the presence of two stories in which the main characters are women through whom the elements of mystery, the supernatural, and terror are presented.

 

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Ben Slama, Mohamed. “The Female Gender as Threat: «La mujer alta» [The Tall Woman], by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, and «La mujer sin cara» [The Woman Without a Face], by Emilio Carrere”. Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2016, vol.VOL 4, no. 2, pp. 247-60, https://raco.cat/index.php/Brumal/article/view/316702.
Author Biography

Mohamed Ben Slama, Universidad de Monastir.Túnez.

Doctor por la Universidad complutense de Madrid.

Profesor de literatura española en el Instituto Superior de Lenguas Aplicadas de Moknine. Universidad de Monastir. Túnez.