Shuli Barzilai

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780415994682
• ISBN-10: 0415994683
• Artikelnr.: 23594259

Autorenporträt

Shuli Barzilai is Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1. The Snake-Charmer's Wife in Genesis Rabbah, or Bluebeard Begins
2. Charles Dickens and Captain Murderer
3. Mr. Thackeray's Closet
4. Miss Thackeray's Uses of Enchantment
5. The Infernal Desire Machines in Anne Thackeray Ritchie's Bluebeard's
Keys and Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber"
6. The Bluebeard Syndrome in Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle: Fear and
Femininity
7. The Party Consciousness: When Texts Get Together in Margaret Atwood's
"Bluebeard's Egg"
Notes
Bibliography
Index