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

Name: Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times
Brand: Routledge
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By Shuli Barzilai

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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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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 208
Release Date:: 2009-04-28
Publication Date:: 2009-04-28
Publisher:: Routledge
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0415994683
ISBN13:: 9780415994682
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 459 g
Height:: 15.7 cm
Width:: 23.5 cm
Thickness:: 1.6 cm

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