{"product_id":"tale-of-bluebeard-in-german-literature","title":"Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eBluebeard', 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,\n\u003cbr\u003eoften 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\n\u003cbr\u003enineteenth-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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156722249966,"sku":"9780199242757","price":344.84,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199242757.jpg?v=1706253043","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/tale-of-bluebeard-in-german-literature","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}