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 Cinderellaacross Cultures, editors Martine Hennard
Dutheil de la Rochere, 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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