Bluebeard" and "The Bloody Chamber
The Grotesque of Self-Parody and Self-Assertion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11241911 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kari Lokke (corresponding author), Kari E Lokke |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0160-9009 • E-ISSN: 1536-0334 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3345932 |
| OpenAlex | W2326611453 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Like many fairy tale motifs, the Bluebeard legend is grotesque in essence. This tale of the wealthy, seemingly chivalrous aristocrat who murders seven young brides and inters them in his cellar brings together violence and love, perversion and innocence, death and marriage in an unsettling combination. The intermingling of seemingly incongruous elements and the juxtaposition of opposites challenge audience expectation and habits of thinking in a manner typical of the grotesque as defined by theorists as varied as Wolfgang Kayser and Mikhail Bakhtin. 1
Art · Assertion · Innocence · Legend · Literature · Perversion · Psychoanalysis · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |