Marvels & Tales articles from April 2005

Marvels & Tales archives from April 2005

From the editor.(Editorial)
April 1, 2005... Interest is continually building around the fairy tale in early modern French Studies, in part thanks to scholars like Holly Tucker. The editors initially saw this special issue on "Reframing the Early French Fairy Tale" grow out of a session...

Preface to the special issue on "reframing the early French fairy tale".(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... For several years, I have taught a course on Approaches to the French Fairy Tale for our Freshman Seminar program at Vanderbilt University. As many Marvels & Tales readers who teach similar classes can relate, a course on fairy tales is...

France's first fairy tales: the restoration and rise narratives of les facetieuses nuictz du Seigneur Francois Straparole.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... This article explores French fairy tales in the context of print and publishing, in particular the French history of Giovan Francesco Straparola's Piacevoli notti with its interspersed fairy tales. For one or more of their tales, authors such...

D'Aulnoy's Histoire d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas (1690): a fairy-tale manifesto.
April 1, 2005... Although many people credit Charles Perrault with the innovation and early development of the French literary fairy tale, Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, comtesse d'Aulnoy, a Norman aristocrat who had a Parisian salon on the Rue St....

The violence of the lambs.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... I Fairy tales are violent. In most tales still told or read today, the violence is punitive, as Maria Tatar and others have shown us. Violence in the tales (with its obverse, a system of rewards) often educates and "disciplines" children...

Of monkey girls and a hog-faced gentlewoman: marvel in fairy tales, fairgrounds, and cabinets of curiosities.
April 1, 2005... There is a marvel that lives in the spaces of connection among fairy tales, fairgrounds, cabinets of curiosities, and medical literature. It crosses limits and melds bodies, makes the boundaries among disciplines unstable, and draws bodies,...

Reframing the early French fairy tale: a selected bibliography.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2005... This bibliography includes printed primary and secondary sources of journal articles, books, dissertations, and published conference proceedings related to French fairy tales. My goal for this project was twofold: to gather sources that best...

Perrault's preface to Griselda and Murat's "To Modern Fairies".(TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS)(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... Translators' Introduction When Charles Perrault published his first tale, La Marquise de Salusses, ou la patience de Griselidis (Griselda), as its own verse narrative in 1691, (1) he was in the throes of the famous literary controversy...

Creation Myths of Primitive America.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Creation Myths of Primitive America. By Jeremiah Curtin. Edited and with an introduction by Karl Kroeber. ABC-CLIO Classic Folk and Fairy Tales. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO, 2002. xli + 297 pp. Jeremiah Curtin was the kind of...

Feeries: Etudes sur le conte merveilleux XVIIe-XIXe Siecle.
April 1, 2005... Feeries: Etudes sur le conte merveilleux XVIIe-XIXe Siecle. No. 1: "Le Recueil" (2003) UMR LIRE, no. 5611. Universite Stendhal-Grenoble 3. This inaugural issue of the annual journal Feeries testifies to renewed interest in the literary...

Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Bestiary.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Bestiary. By Ariane and Christian Delacampagne. Translated by Ariane Delacampagne. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003. 200 pp. 186 color plates. This lavishly illustrated, multicultural study of fantastic animals...

Das Buch, das wir sind: Zur Poetik der Kinder- und Hausmarchen, gesammelt durch die Bruder Grimm.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Das Buch, das wir sind: Zur Poetik der Kinder- und Hausmarchen, gesammelt durch die Bruder Grimm. By Jens E. Sennewald. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 2004. 375 pp. Jens Sennewald's hypothesis is that a close connection exists between...

An Inquiry into the Purposes of Speculative Fiction--Fantasy and Truth.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... An Inquiry into the Purposes of Speculative Fiction--Fantasy and Truth. By Graham Dunstan Martin. Studies in Comparative Literature 58. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. xxii + 284 pp. This Inquiry argues that the...

La seconde preciosite: Floraison des conteuses de 1690 a 1756.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... La seconde preciosite: Floraison des conteuses de 1690 a 1756. By Sophie Raynard. Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 2002. 512 pp. The title of Sophie Raynard's study of the French fairy tale is indicative of her central objective: to tie the...

Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen Asbjornsen.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen Asbjornsen. By Marte Hvam Hult. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003. 260 pp. In the disciplines of folklore and fairy-tale studies, the name Peter Christen Asbjornsen is...

Corpus.
April 1, 2005... Corpus. By Ann Hamilton. Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. North Adams, MA. 2003-4. "The secret power of the folktale lies not in the motifs it employs, but in the manner in which it uses them--that is, in its form," wrote Max...