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- catalog abstract ""'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 Zurn." "While the focus is on literature in German, this is the first full-length published study in English, French, or German devoted entirely to the history of Bluebeard, and it redefines the canon and our interpretations of this tale."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12124219.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""'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."".
- catalog description ""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 Zurn."".
- catalog description ""While the focus is on literature in German, this is the first full-length published study in English, French, or German devoted entirely to the history of Bluebeard, and it redefines the canon and our interpretations of this tale."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. 'Unendliche Geschichte'? Reading Marchen -- 2. Bluebeard -- A Subversive Narrative: Some Theoretical Ideas -- 3. Narratives of Origin -- 4. The Moral(s) of the Story: Early Versions of 'Blaubart' -- 5. The Collector: E. Marlitt, 'Blaubart' -- 6. 'Der Gute Blaubart': Bluebeard at the Turn of the Century -- 7. 'Ich ... Verliess Das Haus Im Morgengrauen': Bluebeard in the Later Twentieth Century -- 8. Blaubarts Schatten: Some Conclusions.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-272) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 279 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0199242755".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford modern languages and literature monographs".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "830.9/351 21".
- catalog subject "Bluebeard (Legendary character) in literature.".
- catalog subject "German literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "German literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "German literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "German literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PT153.B56 D38 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. 'Unendliche Geschichte'? Reading Marchen -- 2. Bluebeard -- A Subversive Narrative: Some Theoretical Ideas -- 3. Narratives of Origin -- 4. The Moral(s) of the Story: Early Versions of 'Blaubart' -- 5. The Collector: E. Marlitt, 'Blaubart' -- 6. 'Der Gute Blaubart': Bluebeard at the Turn of the Century -- 7. 'Ich ... Verliess Das Haus Im Morgengrauen': Bluebeard in the Later Twentieth Century -- 8. Blaubarts Schatten: Some Conclusions.".
- catalog title "The tale of Bluebeard in German literature : from the eighteenth century to the present / Mererid Puw Davies.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".