Feminist Intertextuality and the Bluebeard Story
Title | Feminist Intertextuality and the Bluebeard Story PDF eBook |
Author | Casie Hermansson |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
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Reading Feminist Intertextuality Through Bluebeard Stories
Title | Reading Feminist Intertextuality Through Bluebeard Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Casie Hermansson |
Publisher | Edwin Mellen Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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This study offers a theory for feminist intertextuality based on strategies at work in rewritings of the Bluebeard fairy tale. The book asserts that feminist intertextuality revises one coercive intertext in particular: that of intertextuality theory itself. Rewritings of the fairy tale accordingly can be seen to privilege either the embedded narrative or the escape from it, subscribing either to monologic or dialogic intertextuality. The work examines the original Bluebeard tale group (Perrault, Grimm, variants); historical and modern Bluebeards; and other writers, including Jane Austen, William Godwin, Margaret Atwood, John Fowles, Peter Ackroyd, Kurt Vonnegut, Angela Carter, Gloria Naylor, Emma Cave, Max Frisch, Stephen King, Meira Cook and Donald Barthelme.
Feminist Intertextuality and the Bluebeard Story
Title | Feminist Intertextuality and the Bluebeard Story PDF eBook |
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Release | 1998 |
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Feminist Intertextuality and the Bluebeard Story
Title | Feminist Intertextuality and the Bluebeard Story PDF eBook |
Author | Casie Hermansson |
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Release | 1998 |
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Bluebeard
Title | Bluebeard PDF eBook |
Author | Casie Hermansson |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1604733535 |
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.
Bluebeard
Title | Bluebeard PDF eBook |
Author | Casie E. Hermansson |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2010-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1628467622 |
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like “Mr. Fox,” native to England and America) in English: from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, through the twentieth century in music, literature, art, film, and theater. Chronicling the story's permutations, the book presents examples of English true-crime figures, male and female, called Bluebeards, from King Henry VIII to present-day examples. Bluebeard explores rare chapbooks and their illustrations and the English transformation of Bluebeard into a scimitar-wielding Turkish tyrant in a massively influential melodramatic spectacle in 1798. Following the killer's trail over the years, Casie E. Hermansson looks at the impact of nineteenth-century translations into English of the German fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the particularly English story of how Bluebeard came to be known as a pirate. This book will provide readers and scholars an invaluable and thorough grasp on the many strands of this tale over centuries of telling.
Secrets Beyond the Door
Title | Secrets Beyond the Door PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Tatar |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2006-10-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0691127832 |
Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.