Bluebeard

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307567208

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Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Pdf

“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 : Carl S. Leafstedt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195355055

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Inside Bluebeard's Castle by Carl S. Leafstedt Pdf

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 : Metaphrog
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781545806654

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Metaphrog's Bluebeard by Metaphrog Pdf

Award-winning duo Metaphrog transform the classic folktale into a feminist fairy tale, about the blossoming of a young child to womanhood striving for independence. Eve spends an idyllic childhood of long summer days with her sweetheart Tom, and together they dream of exploring the world. But that dream is soon shattered as she comes of age. The mysterious Bluebeard is looking for a new bride and has his sights set on Eve, and rumor has it that his former wives have all disappeared. What will Eve find in the castle beyond the enchanted forest? A forbidden chamber, a golden key and the most terrifying secret, take on a new life in this gothic graphic novel.

Author : Matthew G. Brown,Thomas Emil Homerin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780253063182

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Ariane & Bluebeard by Matthew G. Brown,Thomas Emil Homerin Pdf

— Matthew Brown developed this project through his founding of TableTopOpera, a group of scholars and performers committed to performing multimedia projects promoting classical music to general audiences. TableTop's production, a reductionist fantasy based on Ariane et Barbe-bleue, played an adaptation of Paul Dukas's original score while panels of P. Craig Russell's popular graphic novel Ariane and Bluebeard, Op. 26 streaked across the auditorium screen. Brown wrote the score and the show was called "a miracle of collaborative creation" thanks to "all editing decisions made in regard not only to Brown's profound knowledge of the epoch and Russell's passion for the opera but of the demanding virtuosos who would be playing it, for the multimedia skills it would require – and for a strong commitment to the integrity of the original score." Th. Emil Homerin produced the show. This book, based off the performance project, already is being marketed through TableTopOpera. Contributors to the volume include an opera singer and instructor from the Metropolitan Opera's production of Bluebeard's Castle, the celebrated comic and graphic artist P. Craig Russell, and scholars in classics, religion, history, women and gender studies, and rare books. — Although the premier of Ariane et Barbe-bleue is frequently lauded as a landmark in operatic history, there is at present no book devoted solely to its history, structure, reception, and cultural implications. — This book will stand out on our music list and contribute to our reputation for publishing books on multimedia topics by touching on such diverse subjects as opera, comic books, and animated movies. Further, it contributes to our list of significant works on women and gender studies. — Our target audience includes students, scholars, and readers interested in musicology, particularly Paul Dukas, French music, and multimedia opera. Other related interests include histories of print, multimedia, and comic works, philosophical discussion of Plato and mysticism, and French symbolist literature.

Author : Giada Goracci
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443896481

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Male Perspectives in Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg" and Hazzard's The Transit of Venus by Giada Goracci Pdf

Postmodern revisions of fairy tales have influenced several discourses and disciplines especially during the second half of the twentieth century. In particular, during the course of postmodernism, the rewriting of classic fairy tales has contributed to the subversion of their stereotypical structures, thus advancing alternative re-readings. This work offers an investigation into gender discourse in two postmodern re-writings of Bluebeard, namely Margaret Atwood’s “Bluebeard’s Egg” and Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus, especially focusing on male/queer perspectives that have not yet been taken into consideration. Starting from an overview on the diverse conceptualisations of the terms “gender” and “sexuality” in modern and contemporary times, this book analyses the birth and evolution of male studies and, subsequently, explores the ways in which they have influenced the interpretation of classical tales. By means of an intertwined and shifting process, which enables the characters of these contemporary revisions to “disguise” their identities within the pages and beyond their texts, the figure of Bluebeard reveals himself as the “in-between” pattern for contemporary gender conceptualisations.

Author : Maria Tatar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691127835

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Secrets Beyond the Door by Maria Tatar Pdf

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.

Author : Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024447286

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Bluebeard's Keys, and Other Stories by Anne Thackeray Ritchie Pdf

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300017103

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In Bluebeard's Castle by George Steiner Pdf

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

Author : Sabilla Novello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000644631

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Bluebeard's Widow and Her Sister Anne. Their History Evolved from Mendacious Chronicles by Sabilla Novello Pdf

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551994871

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Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood Pdf

By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard's Egg infuses a Canada of the 1940s, '50s and '80s with glowing childhood memories, the harsh realities of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty that men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mudane lives and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them—the intimately personal, the fantastic and the shockingly real...whether it's what lies in a mysterious locked room or in the secret feelings we all conceal.

Author : Charles Perrault
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727650522

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Blue Beard (Illustrated) by Charles Perrault Pdf

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 : Anne Isabella Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z255268304

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Bluebeard's Keys by Anne Isabella Thackeray Pdf

Author : Walter Crane
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343045915

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The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book; Containing The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, The Baby's Own Alphabet by Walter Crane Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William C. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000055973931

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Lady Bluebeard by William C. Anderson Pdf

A biographical novel on the life of Lyda Southard, serial killer from Idaho.

Author : Thackeray
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382824211

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Collection of British Authors - Bluebeard's Keys by Thackeray Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.