The Fairy Tales in Verse and Prose/Les contes en vers et en prose - 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 The Fairy Tales in Verse and Prose/Les contes en vers et en prose write by Charles Perrault. This book was released on 2012-12-19. The Fairy Tales in Verse and Prose/Les contes en vers et en prose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVThis comprehensive text for students of French language or literature includes 3 tales in verse as well as much-loved prose favorites such as "Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella." Excellent English translations appear on facing pages. /div
Fairy Tales Transformed?
Fairy Tales Transformed? - 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 Fairy Tales Transformed? write by Cristina Bacchilega. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Fairy Tales Transformed? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars of fairy-tale studies will enjoy Bacchilega's significant new study of contemporary adaptations.
Samuel Richardson in Context
Samuel Richardson in Context - 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 Samuel Richardson in Context write by Peter Sabor. This book was released on 2017-09-21. Samuel Richardson in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the publication of his novel Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded in 1740, Samuel Richardson's place in the English literary tradition has been secured. But how can that place best be described? Over the three centuries since embarking on his printing career the 'divine' novelist has been variously understood as moral crusader, advocate for women, pioneer of the realist novel and print innovator. Situating Richardson's work within these social, intellectual and material contexts, this new volume of essays identifies his centrality to the emergence of the novel, the self-help book, and the idea of the professional author, as well as his influence on the development of the modern English language, the capitalist economy, and gendered, medicalized, urban, and national identities. This book enables a fuller understanding and appreciation of Richardson's life, work and legacy, and points the way for future studies of one of English literature's most celebrated novelists.
Breaking the Mother Goose Code
Breaking the Mother Goose Code - 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 Breaking the Mother Goose Code write by Jeri Studebaker. This book was released on 2015-02-27. Breaking the Mother Goose Code available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who was Mother Goose? Where did she come from, and when? Although she’s one of the most beloved characters in Western literature, Mother Goose’s origins have seemed lost in the mists of time. Several have tried to pin her down, claiming she was the mother of Charlemagne, the wife of Clovis (King of the Franks), the Queen of Sheba, or even Elizabeth Goose of Boston, Massachusetts. Others think she’s related to mysterious goose-footed statues in old French churches called “Queen Pedauque.” This book delves deeply into the surviving evidence for Mother Goose’s origins – from her nursery rhymes and fairy tales as well as from relevant historical, mythological, and anthropological data. Until now, no one has ever confidently identified this intriguing yet elusive literary figure. So who was the real Mother Goose? The answer might surprise you.
Staging Fairyland
Staging Fairyland - 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 Staging Fairyland write by Jennifer Schacker. This book was released on 2018-12-17. Staging Fairyland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale. In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as "pantomime" was part of a shared cultural repertoire and a significant medium for the transmission of stories. Rowdy, comedic, and slightly risqué, pantomime productions were situated in dynamic relationship with various forms of print and material culture. Popular fairy-tale theater also informed the production and reception of folklore research in ways that are often overlooked. In Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children's Entertainment, and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime, Jennifer Schacker reclaims the place of theatrical performance in this history, developing a model for the intermedial and cross-disciplinary study of narrative cultures. The case studies that punctuate each chapter move between the realms of print and performance, scholarship and popular culture. Schacker examines pantomime productions of such well-known tales as "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "Jack and the Beanstalk," as well as others whose popularity has waned—such as, "Daniel O'Rourke" and "The Yellow Dwarf." These productions resonate with traditions of impersonation, cross-dressing, literary imposture, masquerade, and the social practice of "fancy dress." Schacker also traces the complex histories of Mother Goose and Mother Bunch, who were often cast as the embodiments of both tale-telling and stage magic and who move through various genres of narrative and forms of print culture. These examinations push at the limits of prevailing approaches to the fairy tale across media. They also demonstrate the degree to which perspectives on the fairy tale as children's entertainment often obscure the complex histories and ideological underpinnings of specific tales. Mapping the histories of tales requires a fundamental reconfiguration of our thinking about early folklore study and about "fairy tales": their bearing on questions of genre and ideology but also their signifying possibilities—past, present, and future. Readers interested in folklore, fairy-tale studies, children's literature, and performance studies will embrace this informative monograph.
