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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971181903321

Autore

Knapp Bettina Liebowitz <1926-2010.>

Titolo

French fairy tales : a Jungian approach / / Bettina L. Knapp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

9780791488096

0791488098

9781417520336

1417520337

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 393 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Disciplina

398.2/0944/09

Soggetti

Fairy tales - France

Psychoanalysis and fairy tales - France

Symbolism in fairy tales - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-379) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- FRENCH FAIRY TALES -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I: The Middle Ages: Feudalism And "La Societe Courtoise" -- 1. Melusine: "The Beauty Of Things Is Fleet And Swift" -- PART II: The Seventeenth Century: "Le Grand Siècle" -- 2. Charles Perrault's Multi-Veined Donkey-Skin, Sleeping Beauty, and Bluebeard -- 3. Mme d'Aulnoy's The Bluebird-Metamorphosis, An Unconscious Readjustment -- PART III: The Eighteenth Century: "L'Esprit Philosophique" -- 4. Denis Diderot's The White Bird-As Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit -- 5. Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Fantastic Queen Merely A Tongue-In-Cheek Fairy Tale? -- PART IV: The Nineteenth Century: "Le Romantisme"- Esthetic And Utilitarian -- 6. Charles Nodier's The Crumb Fairy-A Sacred Marriage of Sun and Moon -- 7. Theophile Gautier's Parapsychological Hetaera/Fairy: Arria Marcella -- 8. Countess Sophie De Segur's Rosette-A Manichean Merry-Go-Round! -- 9. George Sand's The Castle Of Crooked Peak-The Topography of Memory Manipulation -- 10. Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande-The Dying Complex -- PART V: The Twentieth-Century Slaughter/Science/Spirituality -- 11. Jean Cocteau's Beauty And The Beast-The "Plucking of a Rose" -- 12. Andree



Chedid's The Suspended Heart-The Mystery of Being -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 1. MÉLUSINE -- 2. CHARLES PERRAULT'S MULTI-VEINED DONKEY SKIN, SLEEPING BEAUTY, AND BLUEBEARD -- 4. DENIS DIDEROT'S THE WHITE BIRD -- 5. WAS JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU'S THE FANTASTIC QUEEN MERELY A TONGUE-IN-CHEEK FAIRY TALE? -- 6. CHARLES NODIER'S THE CRUMB FAIRY -- 10. MAURICE MAETERLINCK'S PELLÉAS AND MÉLISANDE -- 11. JEAN COCTAU'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST -- 12. ANDRÉE CHEDID'S THE SUSPENDED HEART -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Offers an analysis of fourteen French fairy tales, from the medieval Romance of Mélusine to Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast, exploring their universal and eternal nature as well as their relevance to modern readers.