Old French Fairy Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old French Fairy Tales write by Sophie Segur. This book was released on 2010-05. Old French Fairy Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 1920 collection includes five timeless French fairy tales written by Comtesse De Segur and illustrated by the 19 year old Virginia Sterrett.
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales write by Bronwyn Reddan. This book was released on 2020-12. Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
Old French Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett
Old French Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old French Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett write by Comtesse De Segur. This book was released on 2013-04-16. Old French Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Old French Fairy Tales is a collection of french folklore and fairytales, penned by Sophie Rostopchine, Countess of Ségur (1799 – 1874). Ségur was a French writer of Russian birth, best known today for her novel Les Malheurs de Sophie (Sophie’s misfortunes), intended for children. The anthology contains stories split into four categories: ‘Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon’, ‘Good Little Henry’, ‘Princess Rosette’, ‘Little Gay Mouse’ and ‘Ourson’. The stories in Old French Fairy Tales are accompanied by the truly beautiful illustrations of Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900 – 1931). Presented alongside the text, her illustrations further refine and elucidate Ségur’s masterful storytelling. Sterrett was an American artist and illustrator – one of the most talented, though also most tragic, of the ‘Golden Age’ illustrators. Sterrett’s illustrations are delicate yet powerful, inspired by the tradition of Art Nouveaux with its light washes of colour and sinuous black lines. She only completed three works in her lifetime, due to her early death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one. These include Old French Fairy Tales (1920), Tanglewood Tales (1921) and Arabian Nights (1928). Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.
Old French Fairy Tales [eBook - NC Digital Library]
Old French Fairy Tales [eBook - NC Digital Library] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old French Fairy Tales [eBook - NC Digital Library] write by Sophie Ségur (comtesse de). This book was released on 2010. Old French Fairy Tales [eBook - NC Digital Library] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
French Fairy Tales
French Fairy Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook French Fairy Tales write by Bettina L. Knapp. This book was released on 2012-02-01. French Fairy Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bettina L. Knapp explores the universal and eternal nature of fourteen French fairy tales, including the medieval Romance of Mélusine, Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century versions of Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard, and Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast. She demonstrates the relevance of these fairy tales for modern readers, both for the psychological problems they address and for the positive resolutions they offer. Through her careful examination of these tales, Knapp shows that people in past eras suffered from such supposedly "modern" problems as alienation and identity crises and went through harrowing ordeals before experiencing some sort of fulfillment. By imparting the age-old wisdom embedded in these works, French Fairy Tales triggers new insights into psychological problems and offers helpful ways of dealing with them.
