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The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature
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Using the idiom of literary criticism, the study considers Bluebeard texts as a seismograph of gender politics and of the process of civilization from seventeenth-century France to 1990s Germany, in a broad range of canonical and non-canonical, often forgotten texts. The study discusses Charles Perrault's French version of 1697, through Ludwig Tieck's versions of 1797 and classic versions by the Grimms and Ludwig Bechstein, to nineteenth-century romantic fiction, the savagery of High Modernism, and twentieth-century versions such as that of the Surrealist Unica Zürn.
While the focus is on literature in German, this is the first full-length study published in any language of the history of Bluebeard, and it redefines the canon and our interpretations of this key tale.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
296
Release Date:
2001-05-24
Publication Date:
2001-04-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199242755
ISBN13:
9780199242757
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Weight:
551 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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