TALES OF BLUEBEARD AND HIS WIVES FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO POSTMODERN TIMES by Shuli Barzilai ( 9781136096747 )

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TALES OF BLUEBEARD AND HIS WIVES FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO POSTMODERN TIMES

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ISBN 10:

1136096744

ISBN 13:

9781136096747

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 January, 2013

Series:

Routledge Studies in Folklore and Fairy Tales

Pages:

194

Synopsis:

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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18 Halftones, black and white

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Routledge

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Non-returnable

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