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Davies, Mererid Puw

 
9780199242757: The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature: Eighteenth Century to the Present
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ISBN 10 : 0199242755 ISBN 13 : 9780199242757
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Bluebeard', in which women are slaughtered by a monstrous husband and their bodies hidden in a horrible chamber, is the most hair-raising of tales; yet with its happy ending, it also has a utopian force.

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Bluebeard', in which women are slaughtered by a monstrous husband and their bodies hidden in a horrible chamber, is the most hair-raising of tales; yet with its happy ending, it also has a utopian force. 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.

Revue de presse

The majority of her [Davies's] readings are perceptive and provocative ... her considerable expansion of the corpus of Bluebeard tales to some 70 texts and operas is commendable, especially as many of them have been forgotten for more than a century. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

One seldom encounters a work of literary cricicism that makes such compelling reading as this investigation of the Bluebeard motif in modern German literature ... it combines thorough scholarship with imaginative intepretation and intellectual sophistication ... this is an exciting book that deserves to be widely read and influential, both within and beyond German studies. (Journal of European Studies)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199242755
ISBN 13 
9780199242757
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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