Author: Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
New York Medical Journal
Author: The Seven Wives of Bluebeard & Other Marvellous Tales
Author: Anatole FrancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Book Bulletin
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times
Author: Shuli BarzilaiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136096582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
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.
The Booklist
Author: Books of 1912-
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Booklist
Author: Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
When Dreams Came True
Author: Jack ZipesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135266123
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why? Until now we have lacked a social history of the fairy tale to frame our understanding of the role it plays in our lives. With the publication of When Dreams Came True, Jack Zipes fills this gap and shifts his focus to the social and historical roots of the classical tales. With coverage of the most significant writers and their works in Europe and North America from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, When Dreams Came True is another important contribution by the master of fairy tales. From the French Charles Perrault to the American L. Frank Baum and the German Hermann Hesse, Zipes explores the way in which particular authors used the genre of the fairy tale to articulate their personal desires, political views and aesthetic preferences in their particular social context. At the core of this magical tour through the history of the fairy tale is Zipes' desire to elucidate the role that the fairy tale has assumed in the civilizing process--the way it imparts values, norms and aesthetic taste to children and adults. His journey takes us to the familiar and the exotic in the great classical tales by Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen and in such fascinating works as Pinocchio, The Thousand and One Nights, The Happy Prince and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Throughout, Zipes reveals the historical dimensions of the tales and demonstrates their continuing relevance in our lives today.