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Stanford University Press, Redwood City
Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it...
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Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense. Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Nonsense, Victorian Nonsense, Romantic Nonsense -- 2 Kant on "Nonsense," "Laughing," and "Caprice -- 3 The Poetics of Nonsense and the Early Romantic Theory of the Fairy Tale -- 4 Between the Addition and Subtraction of Sense-Charles Perrault's La Barbe-Bleue -- 5 "A Book without any Coherence"-Ludwig Tieck's The Seven Wives of Bluebeard -- 6 Suspensions of "Sense" in Genre Theories of the Fairy Tale -- Notes -- Bibliography.
