Reading Feminist Intertextuality Through Bluebeard Stories by Casie Hermansson

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  • Pub. Date: January 2001
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    • Pub. Date: January 2001
    • Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr.
    • Format: Hardcover, 332pp

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    Hermansson (English, Pittsburgh State U., Kansas) contends that the Bluebeard fairy tale demonstrates two distinct types of intertextuality, and that this fundamental distinction has spawned two different traditions in works that use the tale intertextually. She identifies one tradition that adopts the repetition at the core of Bluebeard's own ghastly plot and perpetuates it, and another that adopts the intertextual revisionism of the heroine who cheats him of his victim and thereby breaks the cycle of repetition. Not all intertextuality is good for the readers, she argues, and it is the job of feminist intertextuality to expose that type that imitates Bluebeard. The text is double spaced.

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