Male Perspectives in Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg" and Hazzard's The Transit of Venus

Male Perspectives in Atwood's
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 167
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ISBN-10 : 9781443896481
ISBN-13 : 1443896489
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Book Synopsis Male Perspectives in Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg" and Hazzard's The Transit of Venus by : Giada Goracci

Download or read book Male Perspectives in Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg" and Hazzard's The Transit of Venus written by Giada Goracci and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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