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Gender Alterations in English and French Modernist “Bluebeard” Fairytale
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<p>The article is aimed at scrutinizing a variety of modernistic writings in a Bluebeard fairytale tradition. It is intended to show what is to be gained by studying texts in relation to the contexts in which they were produced. The period considered here is that of the late XIX and early XX centuries. This takes us into discussing patriarchal authority in the political thought of the early modern time in France and that of the Victorian England.The “Bluebeard” fairytale changes in the domain of gender as a response to certain historical and psychological changes are analyzed. A wide range of writings is investigated to reveal the contribution made by the French and English authors in the field of literature. The analysis implies that certain feministic ideas which grew out of social changes in the society of France and England have provoked some archetypal alterations in the texts of French and English modernists.</p>
Canadian Center of Science and Education
Title: Gender Alterations in English and French Modernist “Bluebeard” Fairytale
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<p>The article is aimed at scrutinizing a variety of modernistic writings in a Bluebeard fairytale tradition.
It is intended to show what is to be gained by studying texts in relation to the contexts in which they were produced.
The period considered here is that of the late XIX and early XX centuries.
This takes us into discussing patriarchal authority in the political thought of the early modern time in France and that of the Victorian England.
The “Bluebeard” fairytale changes in the domain of gender as a response to certain historical and psychological changes are analyzed.
A wide range of writings is investigated to reveal the contribution made by the French and English authors in the field of literature.
The analysis implies that certain feministic ideas which grew out of social changes in the society of France and England have provoked some archetypal alterations in the texts of French and English modernists.
</p>.
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