"In the demythologising business"

Angela Carter's the infernal desire machines of dr Hoffmann (1972)

Colin Manlove

pp. 148-160

in: Kath Filmer (ed), Twentieth-century fantasists, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1992

Abstract

It seems obvious, to an impartial observer, that Western European civilisation as we know it has just about run its course and the emergence of the Women’s Movement, and all that implies, is both symptom and product of the unravelling of the culture based on Judaeo-Christianity, a bit of Greek transcendentalism via the father of lies, Plato, and all the other bits and pieces…

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Plato