Mother goose refigured : a critical translation of Charles Perraults fairy tales / Christine A. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Christine A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.

Perrault, Charles.

Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703. Contes des fées.

Fairy tales--France--History and criticism.

Fairy tales.

France.

Physical Description:

x, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Charles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps passé ("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 a new and uncommon kind of literature in the epic world of Louis XIV's court. This inaugural collection of French fairy tales features characters such as 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 Conies 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. In Mother Goose Refigured, Christine A. Jones offers introductory essays on the history of interpretation and translation before retranslating each of the Histoires ou Contes with the aim to prove that if Perrault's is a classical frame of reference, these tales exhibit strikingly modern strategies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Stories or Tales of the Past

Dedication (1697) 105

The Beauty in the Slumbering Woodland 107

The Little Red Tippet 116

The Blue Beard 120

The Master Cat; or, Cat-in-the-Boots 127

The Fairies 133

Ashkins; or, Tire Little Slipper of Glass 137

Riquet the Tufted 145

The Little Thumblette 153

Annotated Bibliography of the Histoires ou Contes du temps passé in French and English 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-205) and index.

ISBN:

0814338925

9780814338926

OCLC:

935989076