| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 421 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates). |
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text file rdaft |
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(pdf) |
| Series |
Series in fairy-tale studies |
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Series in fairy-tale studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cinderella: The People's Princess / Ruth B. Bottigheimer -- Perrault's "Cendrillon" among the Glass Tales: Crystal Fantasies and Glassworks in Seventeenth-Century France and Italy / Kathryn A. Hoffmann -- The Translator as Agent of Change: Robert Samber, Translator of Pornography, Medical Texts, and the First English Version of Perrault's "Cendrillon" (1729) / Gillian Lathey -- "Cendrillon" and "Aschenputtel": Different Voices, Different Projects, Different Cultures / Cyrille François -- The Dissemination of a Fairy Tale in Popular Print: Cinderella as a Case Study / Talitha Verheij -- Moral Adjustments to Perrault's Cinderella in French Children's Literature (1850 -- 1900) / Daniel Aranda -- Rejecting the Glass Slipper: The Subversion of Cinderella in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman / Rona May-Ron -- Fairy-Tale Refashioning in Angela Carter's Fiction: From Cinderella's Ball Dresses to Ashputtle's Rags / Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère -- Multiple Metamorphoses, or "New Skins" for an Old Tale: Emma Donoghue's Queer Cinderella in Translation / Ashley Riggs -- Home by Midnight: The Male Cinderella in LGBTI Fiction for Young Adults / Mark Macleod -- "I'm sure it all wears off by midnight": Prince Cinders and a Fairy's Queer Invitation / Jennifer Orme -- Cinderella from a Cross-Cultural Perspective: Connecting East and West in Donna Jo Napoli's Bound / Roxane Hughes -- Revisualizing Cinderella for All Ages / Sandra L. Beckett -- The Illustrator as Fairy Godmother: The Illustrated Cinderella in the Low Countries / Jan Van Coillie -- Imagining a Polish Cinderella / Monika Woźniak -- Cinderella in Polish Posters / Agata Hołobut -- On the Evolution of Success Stories in Soviet Mass Culture: The "Shining Path" of Working-Class Cinderella / Xenia Mitrokhina -- The Triumph of the Underdog: Cinderella's Legacy / Jack Zipes. |
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| Summary |
The Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other media, and folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella plots worldwide. The focus of this volume, however, is neither Cinderella as an item of folklore nor its alleged universal meaning. In Cinderella across Cultures , editors Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey, and Monika Wozniak analyze the Cinderella tale as a fascinating, multilayered, and ever-changing story constantly reinvented in different media and traditions. The collection highlights the tale's reception and adaptation in cultural and national contexts across the globe, including those of Italy, France, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, Poland, and Russia. Contributors shed new light on classic versions of Cinderella by examining the material contexts that shaped them (such as the development of glass artifacts and print techniques), or by analyzing their reception in popular culture (through cheap print and mass media). The first section, "Contextualizing Cinderella," investigates the historical and cultural contexts of literary versions of the tale and their diachronic transformations. The second section, "Regendering Cinderella," tackles innovative and daring literary rewritings of the tale in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in particular modern feminist and queer takes on the classic plot. Finally, the third section, "Visualising Cinderella," concerns symbolic transformations of the tale, especially the interaction between text and image and the renewal of the tale's iconographic tradition. The volume offers an invaluable contribution to the study of this particular tale and also to fairy-tale studies overall. Readers interested in the visual arts, in translation studies, or in popular culture, as well as a wider audience wishing to discover the tale anew will delight in this collection. |
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Publisher metadata. |
| Subject |
Cinderella (Tale) -- History and criticism.
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Cinderella (Legendary character) -- In literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dutheil de la Rochère, Martine Hennard, editor.
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Lathey, Gillian, 1949- editor.
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Woźniak, Monika, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780814341568 (e-pub) |
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9780814341551 (print) |
| Standard No. |
(YBP)12609034 |
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