Mother Goose Refigured: A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales Contributor(s): Jones, Christine A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814338925 ISBN-13: 9780814338926 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $31.67 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology |
Dewey: 841.4 |
LCCN: 2016937228 |
Series: Fairy-Tale Studies |
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" (0.69 lbs) 228 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Charles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps pass ("Stories or Tales of the Past") in France in 1697 during what scholars call the first "vogue" of tales produced by learned French writers. The genre that we now know so well was new and an uncommon kind of literature in the epic world of Louis XIV's court. This inaugural collection of French fairy tales features characters like Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Puss in Boots that over the course of the eighteenth century became icons of social history in France and abroad. Translating the original Histoires ou Contes means grappling not only with the strangeness of seventeenth-century French but also with the ubiquity and familiarity of plots and heroines in their famous English personae. |