Bluebeard's Keys

Bluebeard's Keys PDF Author: Miss Thackeray
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368808796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Bluebeard's Keys

Bluebeard's Keys PDF Author: Miss Thackeray
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368808796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Bluebeard's Keys, and Other Stories

Bluebeard's Keys, and Other Stories PDF Author: Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Blue Beard (Illustrated)

Blue Beard (Illustrated) PDF Author: Charles Perrault
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781727650525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Rare edition with unique illustrations. Along with the collections of Andersen, Lang, and the Brothers Grimm, the Fairy tales of Charles Perrault is among the great books of European fairy tales. These stories have been enjoyed by generation after generation of children in many countries, and are here, waiting to be enjoyed again. "Blue beard" is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passe. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors.

Bluebeard

Bluebeard PDF Author: Casie Hermansson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604732313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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A study of the ever-evolving fairy tale about the murderous aristocrat and his endangered wife

Inside Bluebeard's Castle

Inside Bluebeard's Castle PDF Author: Carl S. Leafstedt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195355059
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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This is the first book-length examination of Bartók's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works. Writing in an engaging style, Leafstedt adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the opera by introducing, in addition to music-dramatic analysis, a number of topics that are new to the field of Bartók studies. These new areas of critical and scholarly terrain include a detailed literary study of the libretto and a gender-focused analysis of the opera's female character, Judith. Leafstedt begins with a short introductory chapter that places Duke Bluebeard's Castle within the context of Bartók's early composing career, his discovery of folk music, and its impact on his later work. The book goes on to explore the composition's troubled history, its failure to win two early Hungarian opera competitions, and the three versions of the ending that resulted, discussed here in depth for the first time. The core of the book is devoted to the musical and dramatic organization of the opera and offers an analysis of the seven individual door scenes, including a detailed analysis of scene six, the "lake of tears" scene, illustrating the work's complex tonal organization and dramatic structure. A separate chapter places this darkly psychological version of the Bluebeard story within the broader context of European history and literature. Throughout the book, Leafstedt draws on original Hungarian source material, much of it newly translated by the author and available here for the first time in English, and he includes a generous selection of musical examples. Inside Bluebeard's Castle is an ideal starting point for research in twentieth-century music, Hungarian cultural history, and opera studies, as well as an invaluable guide for anyone interested in Bartók's only opera.

Secrets Beyond the Door

Secrets Beyond the Door PDF Author: Maria Tatar
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691127832
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.

Bluebeard

Bluebeard PDF Author: Casie Hermansson
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604733535
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.

The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales

The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales PDF Author: Maria Tatar
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691114699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Book Description
Throughout the book, Tatar employs the tools not only of a psychoanalyst but also of a folklorist, literary critic, and historian to examine the harsher aspects of these stories. She presents new interpretations of the powerful stories in this book. Few studies have been written in English on these tales, and none has probed their allegedly happy endings so thoroughly."--BOOK JACKET.

Annotated Classic Fairy Tales

Annotated Classic Fairy Tales PDF Author: Maria Tatar
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393051636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Book Description
Twenty-six classic fairy tales are supplemented by extensive literary, cultural, and historical commentary.

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 2

The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family Vol 2 PDF Author: John Aplin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243908
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Book Description
Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.