Fairy tales framed : early forewords, afterwords, and critical words

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Label

Fairy tales framed : early forewords, afterwords, and critical words

Title remainder

early forewords, afterwords, and critical words

Statement of responsibility

edited by Ruth B. Bottigheimer

Contributor

• Bottigheimer, Ruth B

Subject

• Fairy tales -- History and criticism
• Fairy tales in literature

Language

eng

Summary

"Most early fairy tale authors had a lot to say about what they wrote. Charles Perrault explained his sources and recounted friends' reactions. His niece Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier and her friend Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy used dedications and commentaries to situate their tales socially and culturally, while the raffish Henriette Julie de Murat accused them all of taking their plots from the Italian writer Giovan Francesco Straparola and admitted to borrowing from the Italians herself. These reflections shed a bright light on both the tales and on their composition, but in every case, they were removed soon after their first publication. Remaining largely unknown, their absence created empty space that later readers filled with their own views about the conditions of production and reception of the tales. What their authors had to say about 'Puss in Boots, ' 'Cinderella, ' 'Sleeping Beauty, ' and 'Rapunzel, ' among many other fairy tales, is collected here for the first time, newly translated and accompanied by rich annotations. Also included are revealing commentaries from the authors' literary contemporaries. As a whole, these forewords, afterwords, and critical words directly address issues that inform the contemporary study of European fairy tales, including traditional folkloristic concerns about fairy tale origins and performance, as well as questions of literary aesthetics and historical context."--Page 4 of cover

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

398.209

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PN3437

LC item number

.F38 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography