Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times

AvShuli Barzilai

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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This project provides an in-depth study of narratives about Bluebeard and his wives, or narratives with identifiable Bluebeard motifs, and the intertextual and extratextual personal, political, literary, and sociocultural factors that have made the tale a particularly fertile ground for an author’s adaptation of the story. Whereas Charles Dickens, for example, expresses a sympathetic identification with Bluebeard, and a discernable strain of misogyny emerges in his recreation of the tale and recurrent allusions to it, his contemporary, William Makepeace Thackeray, uses the tale as a springboard for his critique of avarice, hypocrisy, pretension, and the subjugation of women in Victorian society.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-02-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:294 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Folklore and Fairy Tales
Antal sidor:206
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138868731

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Shuli Barzilai is Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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"This is a subtle and multi-threaded book that will prove interesting to a wide variety of readers…Barzilai’s sophisticated approach combines intertextual readings with an extratextual viewpoint that explores the interplay between stories using the Bluebeard theme and the story author’s lives." --Francisco Vas da Silva, Marvels & Tales

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. The Snake-Charmer’s Wife in Genesis Rabbah, or Bluebeard Begins 2. Charles Dickens and Captain Murderer 3. Mr. Thackeray’s Closet 4. Miss Thackeray’s Uses of Enchantment 5. The Infernal Desire Machines in Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Bluebeard’s Keys and Angela Carter’s "The Bloody Chamber" 6. The Bluebeard Syndrome in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle: Fear and Femininity7. The Party Consciousness: When Texts Get Together in Margaret Atwood’s "Bluebeard’s Egg" NotesBibliography Index