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Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale
Elizabeth Wanning Harries
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Paperback. Fairy tales, often said to be "timeless" and fundamentally "oral," have a long written history. This book argues that however a vital part of this history has fallen by the wayside. It refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. It examines the evolution of the "Anglo-American" fairy tale and its place in this variegated history. Num Pages: 232 pages, 14 halftones. 5 line illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBH; DSK; JFHF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
390g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691115672
SKU
V9780691115672
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About Elizabeth Wanning Harries
Elizabeth Wanning Harries is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Smith College. She is the author of The Unfinished Manner: Essays on the Fragment in the Later Eighteenth Century .
Reviews for Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale
In this elegant study the scholar Elizabeth Wanning Harries gives their due to the counteuses
the 17th century French ladies ... who entertained their salons with witty, sophisticated fantasies about imaginary princes and princesses... Harries suggests, with culture today fragmented into myriad products and market niches, fairy tales may be our only universal point of reference, the only cultural language we ... Read more
the 17th century French ladies ... who entertained their salons with witty, sophisticated fantasies about imaginary princes and princesses... Harries suggests, with culture today fragmented into myriad products and market niches, fairy tales may be our only universal point of reference, the only cultural language we ... Read more