The Fairy Tale Revisited: A Survey of the Evolution of the Tales, from Classical Literary Interpretations to Innovative Contemporary Dance-Theat

by Katia Canton

What are Fairy Tales? What do they mean? Despite conventional wisdom, they are not ageless and universal stories. Through the adaptation of oral studies into literary texts, these tales have been edited, rewritten and modified according to the zeitgeist of the authors. They have been designed within particular socio-historical and cultural contexts. The book looks at the literary work of Charles Perrault in seventeenth-century France and the Brothers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820423092
• ISBN13: 9780820423098
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 186 Pages