Description:
This project provides an in-depth study of narratives about Bluebeard and his wives, or narratives with identifiable Bluebeard motifs, and the intertextual and extratextual personal, political, literary, and sociocultural factors that have made the tale a particularly fertile ground for an author's adaptation of the story.
Review Quotes:
"This is a subtle and multi-threaded book that will prove interesting to a wide variety of readers...Barzilai's sophisticated approach combines intertextual readings with an extratextual viewpoint that explores the interplay between stories using the Bluebeard theme and the story author's lives." --Francisco Vas da Silva, Marvels & Tales