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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bottigheimer, Ruth B. (1939-....)
Titre(s) : Fairy tales [Texte imprimé] : a new history / Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Publication : Albany, N.Y. : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, c2009
Description matérielle : vii, 152 p. ; 23 cm
Comprend : Why a new history of fairy tales? ; Two accounts of the Grimm's tales : the folk
as creator, the book as source ; The late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century layers
: Perrault, Lhéritier, and their successors ; The two inventors of fairy tale tradition
: Giambattista Basile (1634-1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553) ;
A new history.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-144) and index
This work overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents
their actual origins and transmission. Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots?
Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging
pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral traditions
of peasants and were recorded for posterity by the Brothers Grimm during the nineteenth
century. The author overturns this view in this account of the origins of these well
loved stories. Charles Perrault created Cinderella and her fairy godmother, but no
countrywoman whispered this tale into Perrault's ear. Instead, his Cinderella appeared
only after he had edited it from the book of often amoral tales published by Giambattista
Basile in Naples. Distinguishing fairy tales from folktales and showing the influence
of the medieval romance on them, the author documents how fairy tales originated as
urban writing for urban readers and listeners. Working backward from the Grimms to
the earliest known sixteenth-century fairy tales of the Italian Renaissance, she argues
for a book based history of fairy tales. The first new approach to fairy tale history
in decades, this book answers questions about where fairy tales came from and how
they spread, illuminating a narrative process long veiled by surmise and assumption
Sujet(s) : Contes de fées
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781438425238 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1438425236 (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9781438425245 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1438425244 (pbk.) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436287188
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