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This article aims to analyze the translation process in poetry considering the works of Angela Carter as a translator. Carter was a noted British author, best known for her novels and rewrites of fairy tales, and for her works related to science fiction. For this article, by using the book Unicorn: the poetry of Angela Carter (2015) and based on Lefevere's theories of translation (1975, 1992, 2003) we propose a translation exercise from English into Brazilian Portuguese of an excerpt from her poem - namesake - titled "Unicorn". In this sense, we seek to understand how literary creation and literary translation are presented in Carter's work as a wordsmith - an artist of the word. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I discuss the impact of the use of revisionist tactics in retellings of fairy tales by the contemporary writers Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, and Angela Carter, in order to show how the new readings make it possible to question, and in some cases, even to contest or change conventional meanings crystallized by the tradition of these children's stories. To do so I rely on Adrienne Rich's concept of "revision" and on the notions of revisionist tactics pointed out by Rachel B. DuPlessis and Alicia S. Ostriker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]