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- Title: Bluebeard's Curiosity Cabinet: The Secret Heart of Textual Materialism.
- Author : Romance Notes
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 185 KB
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CHARLES Perrault penned his treatise on the theory of aesthetics, La peintureu at roughly the same time that he wrote his conte, La Barbebleue. It can come as no coincidence that the two texts are concerned with the issues not only of representation, but also those having to do with the exercise of power, especially since Perrault's relationship with his chief patron, the autocratic Louis XIV, and the minister Colbert was so fraught at the time. It is, therefore, possible to pair the two texts together, using the theoretical tract on representation to illuminate how objects function in the story. Textual materialist criticism, of the sort practiced by Patricia Fumerton on Elizabethan miniatures or Peter Stallybrass on early modern vestimentary habits or Lisa Jardine on Erasmus's politics of self-publicizing, can help in defining the artifactual population of the universe in which the characters of La Barbe-bleue take on existence and, to some extent, also reflect Perrault's own. This school of criticism takes each object in a narrative as a nodal mark, a punctuation point or a pause on the pathway toward the construction of sense. Every object must be accounted for.