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Mother Goose Refigured: A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales (The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies) by Christine Anne Jones is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 New And An Uncommon Kind Of Literature In The Epic World Of Louis Xiv's Court. This Inaugural Collection Of French Fairy Tales Features Characters Like 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 Contes 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. From Its Very First Translation In 1729, Histoires Ou Contes Has Depended Heavily On Its English Translations For The Genesis Of Character Names And Enduring Recognition.^ This Dependability Makes New, Innovative Translation Challenging. For Example, Can Perrault's Invented Name Cendrillon Be Retranslated Into Anything Other Than Cinderella? And What Would Happen To Our Understanding Of The Tale If It Were? Is It Possible To Sidestep The An
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- Author
- Christine Anne Jones
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814338933
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Literary Fiction
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