The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature
From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 March 2001
- ISBN 9780199242757
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 224x146x21 mm
- Weight 468 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
'Bluebeard', in which women are slaughtered and hidden in a horrible chamber by a monstrous husband, is hair-raising; yet its happy ending gives it a utopian force. Davies's book focuses on literature in German from the eighteenth century to the 1990s, and is the first full-length study of the history of Bluebeard published in any language.
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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 Zürn.
While the focus is on literature in German, this is the first full-length study published in any language of the history of Bluebeard, and it redefines the canon and our interpretations of this key tale.
The majority of her [Davies's] readings are perceptive and provocative ... her considerable expansion of the corpus of Bluebeard tales to some 70 texts and operas is commendable, especially as many of them have been forgotten for more than a century.
Table of Contents:
Unendliche Geschichte? Reading Märchen
Bluebeard - A Subversive Narrative. Some Theoretical Ideas
Narratives of Origin
The Moral(s) of the Story: Early Versions of 'Blaubart'
The Collector: E. Marlitt, 'Blaubart'
'Der gute Blaubart': Bluebeard at the Turn of the Century
'Ich . . . verleiss das Haus in Morgengrauen': Bluebeard in the Later Twentieth Century
Blaubarts Schatten: Some Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
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