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Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood by Maria Tatar |
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" a scintillating account of what generations of high and low culture have done to the Bluebeard folktale". -- John Leonard, Harper's Magazine
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[A] fine book, which both scholars and ordinary readers enjoy, as I did.
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Tatar takes on Bluebeard and the result is a deeply resonant, fascinating study of intertextuality.
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(Alison Lurie The American Scholar )
Tatar takes on Bluebeard and the result is a deeply resonant, fascinating study of intertextuality.
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whose problem-solving skills and psychological finesse make her a shrewd detective, capable of rescuing herself and often her marriage in the bargain. But she can also be seen as a figure who wants to know too much, whose curiosity represents a betrayal of trust, as Edna St. Vincent Millay suggests in a Bluebeard poem: "And you did so profane me when you crept/Unto the threshold of this room to-night." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
forbidden chamber, potato barn, bloody chamber, investigative energy, robber bridegroom, blue castle, mountain troll, previous wives, dangerous curiosity, cinematic culture, female curiosity, seventh wife, dead wives, narrative energy, forbidden door, operatic tradition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jane Eyre, Fitcher's Bird, Uncle Charlie, Humbert Humbert, Lady Mary, Monsieur Verdoux, Pretty Polly, Angela Carter, Charles Perrault, Margaret Atwood, Edmund Dulac, Rabo Karabekian, Walter Crane's Toy Books, Brothers Grimm, Circe Berman, Miss Thwaites, Barney Snaith, Bertha Mason, Bluebeard's Egg, Cindy Sherman, King Schahriyar, Mother Goose, Prince Charming, Seven Wives of Bluebeard, Snow White New!
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whose problem-solving skills and psychological finesse make her a shrewd detective, capable of rescuing herself and often her marriage in the bargain. But she can also be seen as a figure who wants to know too much, whose curiosity represents a betrayal of trust, as Edna St. Vincent Millay suggests in a Bluebeard poem: "And you did so profane me when you crept/Unto the threshold of this room to-night." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
forbidden chamber, potato barn, bloody chamber, investigative energy, robber bridegroom, blue castle, mountain troll, previous wives, dangerous curiosity, cinematic culture, female curiosity, seventh wife, dead wives, narrative energy, forbidden door, operatic tradition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jane Eyre, Fitcher's Bird, Uncle Charlie, Humbert Humbert, Lady Mary, Monsieur Verdoux, Pretty Polly, Angela Carter, Charles Perrault, Margaret Atwood, Edmund Dulac, Rabo Karabekian, Walter Crane's Toy Books, Brothers Grimm, Circe Berman, Miss Thwaites, Barney Snaith, Bertha Mason, Bluebeard's Egg, Cindy Sherman, King Schahriyar, Mother Goose, Prince Charming, Seven Wives of Bluebeard, Snow White New!
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- Margaret Atwood (Modern Novelists) by Coral Ann Howells on 10 pages
- Grimm's Fairy Tales (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Jacob Grimm on 4 pages
- The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on page 134, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic by Mark Edmundson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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