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

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times by Shuli Barzilai, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Shuli Barzilai ISBN: 9781136096662
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: January 11, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Shuli Barzilai
ISBN: 9781136096662
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: January 11, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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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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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