Bluebeards Castle

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300017106
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Bluebeard's Castle written by George Steiner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century

Author : Charles Perrault
Publisher : The Planet
ISBN 13 : 1908478462
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Beard (Illustrated) written by Charles Perrault and published by The Planet. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic fairy tale of Blue Beard illustrated by Walter Crane. Crane's work in children's books in cooperation with the publisher Edmund Evans earned him worldwide fame in the latter 19th century.

Author : Béla Bartók
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duke Bluebeard's Castle written by Béla Bartók and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gene Kemp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571193189
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluebeard's Castle written by Gene Kemp and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0195355059
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Bluebeard's Castle written by Carl S. Leafstedt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Anna Biller
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1804291897
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluebeard's Castle written by Anna Biller and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebeard gets a feminist Gothic makeover in this subversive take on the famous French fairy tale-from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, and for fans of Jane Eyre When the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast, his love transforms her from a bitter, lonely young woman into a romance heroine overnight. After a whirlwind honeymoon in Paris, he whisks her away to a secluded Gothic castle. But soon she finds herself trapped in a nightmare, as her husband's mysterious nature and his alternation between charm and violence become increasingly frightening. As Judith battles both internal and external demons, including sexual ambivalence, psychological self-torture, gaslighting, family neglect, alcoholism, and domestic abuse, she becomes increasingly addicted to her wild beast of a husband. Why do women stay in abusive relationships? The answer can be found in the tortured mind of the protagonist, whose richly layered fantasy life parallels that of the female Gothic romance reader. Filled with dark humor and evocative imagery, Bluebeard's Castle is a subversive take on modern romance and Gothic erotica.

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0307567206
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluebeard written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ranks with Vonnegut’s best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction.”—The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves. Praise for Bluebeard “Vonnegut is at his edifying best.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “The quicksilver mind of Vonnegut is at it again. . . . He displays all his talents—satire, irony, ridicule, slapstick, and even a shaggy dog story of epic proportions.”—The Cincinnati Post “[Kurt Vonnegut is] a voice you can trust to keep poking holes in the social fabric.”—San Francisco Chronicle “It has the qualities of classic Bosch and Slaughterhouse Vonnegut. . . . Bluebeard is uncommonly feisty.”—USA Today “Is Bluebeard good? Yes! . . . This is vintage Vonnegut—good wine from his best grapes.”—The Detroit News “A joyride . . . Vonnegut is more fascinated and puzzled than angered by the human stupidities and contradictions he discerns so keenly. So hop in his rumble seat. As you whiz along, what you observe may provide some new perspectives.”—Kansas City Star

Author : Griselda Pollock
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluebeard's Legacy written by Griselda Pollock and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Casie Hermansson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604733535
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluebeard written by Casie Hermansson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Casie Hermansson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604732313
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluebeard written by Casie Hermansson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ever-evolving fairy tale about the murderous aristocrat and his endangered wife