[PDF] Inside Bluebeards Castle eBook

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300017106

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The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century

Author : Gene Kemp
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 9780571193189

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A sinister film director and tycoon sets up the theme park to end all theme parks, with incredible attractions that stretch the boundaries of reality to the limit. But when his new, very young teenage bride brings her family to visit, they soon discover the truth that lurks behind the scenes.

Author : Carl S. Leafstedt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195355059

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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.

Author : Casie Hermansson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781604732313

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

Author : Charles Perrault
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 2018-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781727650525

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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.

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442498781

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Romance and adventure await Nancy on the craggy coast of Cornwall, England. There to help a friend who could be in danger, Nancy finds more than she bargained for!

Author : Heta Pyrhönen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2010-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442698888

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'Bluebeard,' the tale of a sadistic husband who murders his wives and locks away their bodies, has inspired hundreds of adaptations since it first appeared in 1697. In Bluebeard Gothic, Heta Pyrhönen argues that Charlotte Brontë's 1847 classic Jane Eyre can be seen as one such adaptation, and that although critics have been slow to realize the connection, authors rewriting Brontë's novel have either intuitively or intentionally seized on it. Pyrhönen begins by establishing that the story of Jane Eyre is intermingled with the 'Bluebeard' tale, as young Jane moves between households, each dominated by its own Bluebeard figure. She then considers rewritings of Jane Eyre, such as Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale (2006), to examine how novelists have interpreted the status and meaning of 'Bluebeard' in Brontë's novel. Using psychoanalysis as the primary model of textual analysis, Bluebeard Gothic focuses on the conjunction of religion, sacrifice, and scapegoating to provide an original interpretation of a canonical and frequently-studied text.

Author : Griselda Pollock
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Bluebeard's curse : repetition and improvisational energy in the Bluebeard tale / Maria Tatar -- Bluebeard, hero of modernity : tales at the fin de siècle / Mererid Puw Davies -- Béla Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's castle : a musicological perspective / David Cooper -- A tale of an eye : revealing the Jew in Duke Bluebeard's castle / Victoria Anderson -- Hidden debates under a Baroque surface : Barbe-bleue by Georges Méliès (1901) / Michael Hiltbrunner.