Twice upon a Time Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale

Name: Twice upon a Time Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale
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ISBN: 9780691115672

ISBN-10: 0691115672

ISBN-13: 9780691115672

Edition: 2001

Authors: Elizabeth Wanning Harries

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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…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/22/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Once, Not Long Ago



Fairy Tales about Fairy Tales: Notes on Canon Formation



Voices in Print: Oralities in the Fairy Tale



The Invention of the Fairy Tale in Britain


Interlude: Once Again



New Frames for Old Tales



The Art of Transliteration


Conclusion: Twice-Told Tales


Notes


Bibliography


Index