During the first half of the reign of Louis XIV, Charles Perrault
enjoyed the status of a prominent public intellectual. A key player
in the development of the arts, he has commonly been situated in
French literary and cultural history as the spokesman for the
Moderns in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, the seventeenth
century's protracted aesthetic controversy. During the 1690s, after
falling from political favour, Perrault took up the writing of
fiction and achieved lasting fame as the author of the Mother Goose
Tales. Seeing Through the Mother Goose Tales proposes a framework
for relating these two distinct facets of his career. The author
shows how the intellectual and conceptual compromises that the
fairy tales rearticulate derive their force and coherence from the
priority that Perrault's characters, faithful to the dominant
values of the century, accord to visual representation.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 1996 |
| First published: |
1996 |
| Authors: |
Philip Lewis
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth
|
| Pages: |
312 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8047-2410-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8047-2410-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780804724104 |
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