Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738185762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738185762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Twice upon a Time
Author: Elizabeth Wanning HarriesPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069118853X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Fairy tales, often said to be ''timeless'' and fundamentally ''oral,'' have a long written history. However, argues Elizabeth Wanning Harries in this provocative book, a vital part of this history has fallen by the wayside. The short, subtly didactic fairy tales of Charles Perrault and the Grimms have determined our notions about what fairy tales should be like. Harries argues that alongside these ''compact'' tales there exists another, ''complex'' tradition: tales written in France by the conteuses (storytelling women) in the 1690s and the late-twentieth-century tales by women writers that derive in part from this centuries-old tradition. Grounded firmly in social history and set in lucid prose, Twice upon a Time refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. The conteuses saw their tales as amusements for sophisticated adults in the salon, not for children. Self-referential, frequently parodic, and set in elaborate frames, their works often criticize the social expectations that determined the lives of women at the court of Louis XIV. After examining the evolution of the ''Anglo-American'' fairy tale and its place in this variegated history, Harries devotes the rest of her book to recent women writers--A. S. Byatt, Anne Sexton, Angela Carter, and Emma Donoghue among them--who have returned to fairy-tale motifs so as to challenge modern-day gender expectations. Late-twentieth-century tales, like the conteuses', force us to rethink our conception of fairy tales and of their history.
Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde
Author: Analisa Leppanen-GuerraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351572059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Focusing on his evocative and profound references to children and their stories, Children's Stories and 'Child-Time' in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde studies the relationship between the artist's work on childhood and his search for a transfigured concept of time. This study also situates Cornell and his art in the broader context of the transatlantic avant-garde of the 1930s and 40s. Analisa Leppanen-Guerra explores the children's stories that Cornell perceived as fundamental in order to unpack the dense network of associations in his under-studied multimedia works. Moving away from the usual focus on his box constructions, the author directs her attention to Cornell's film and theater scenarios, 'explorations', 'dossiers', and book-objects. One highlight of this study is a work that may well be the first artist's book of its kind, and has only been exhibited twice: Untitled (Journal d'Agriculture Pratique), presented as Cornell's enigmatic tribute to Lewis Carroll's Alice books.
Finding List of French Prose Fiction in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York
Author: New York. Mercantile Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Books for All
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
A Critical History of French Children's Literature
Author: Penny BrownPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135871949
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
A Critical History of French Children's Literature
Author: Penelope E. BrownPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135871930
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children’s literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne, and Saint-Exupéry were, and continue to be, widely translated and adapted, and have influenced the development of the genre in other countries.
Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustre
Author: Pierre Athanase LaroussePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French
Languages : en
Pages : 1780
Book Description
When Dreams Came True
Author: Jack ZipesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135862206
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why? In When Dreams Came True, Jack Zipes explains the social life of the fairy tale, from the sixteenth century on into the twenty-first. Whether exploring Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or The Thousand and One Nights, The Happy Prince or Pinocchio, L. Frank Baum or Hermann Hesse, Zipes shows how the authors of our beloved fairy tales used the genre to articulate personal desires, political views, and aesthetic preferences within particular social contexts. Above all, he demonstrates the role that the fairy tale has assumed in the civilizing process—the way it imparts values, norms, and aesthetic taste to children and adults. This second edition of one of Jack Zipes’s best-loved books includes a new preface and two new chapters on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
