The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780199242757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 296 str.

Mererid Puw Davies

Opis

"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. This book, the first such full-length study in any language, 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 texts.

Recenzje

One seldom encounters a work of literary cricicism that makes such compelling reading as this investigation of the Bluebeard motif in modern German literature ... it combines thorough scholarship with imaginative intepretation and intellectual sophistication ... this is an exciting book that deserves to be widely read and influential, both within and beyond German studies.