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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.

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1. Introduction: nonsense, Victorian nonsense, Romantic nonsense 2. Kant on 'nonsense', 'laughing', and 'caprice' 3. The poetics of nonsense and the early romantic thoery of the fairy tale 4. Between the addition and subtraction of sense - Charles Perrault's La Barbe-Bleue 5. 'A book without and coherence' - Ludwig Tieck's The Seven Wives of Bluebeard 6. Suspensions of 'sense' in Genre theories of the fairy tale Notes Bibliography.

In Praise of Nonsense Kant and Bluebeard Meridian

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/1999
      ISBN13: 9780804729529, 978-0804729529
      ISBN10: 0804729522
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction: nonsense, Victorian nonsense, Romantic nonsense 2. Kant on 'nonsense', 'laughing', and 'caprice' 3. The poetics of nonsense and the early romantic thoery of the fairy tale 4. Between the addition and subtraction of sense - Charles Perrault's La Barbe-Bleue 5. 'A book without and coherence' - Ludwig Tieck's The Seven Wives of Bluebeard 6. Suspensions of 'sense' in Genre theories of the fairy tale Notes Bibliography.

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