Selected Short Stories (Dual-Language)

Selected Short Stories (Dual-Language)
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0486119629

DIV6 short-story masterpieces by great French novelist include "An Episode During the Terror," "A Passion in the Desert," "The Revolutionary Conscript," 3 more. Excellent new English translations on facing pages. /div

Grimms' Tales around the Globe

Grimms' Tales around the Globe
Author: Vanessa Joosen
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2014-06-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0814339212

Grimms’ fairy tales are among the best-known stories in the world, but the way they have been introduced into and interpreted by cultures across the globe has varied enormously. In Grimms’ Tales around the Globe, editors Vanessa Joosen and Gillian Lathey bring together scholars from Asia, Europe, and North and Latin America to investigate the international reception of the Grimms’ tales. The essays in this volume offer insights into the social and literary role of the tales in a number of countries and languages, finding aspects that are internationally constant as well as locally particular. In the first section, Cultural Resistance and Assimilation, contributors consider the global history of the reception of the Grimms’ tales in a range of cultures. In these eight chapters, scholars explore how cunning translators and daring publishers around the world reshaped and rewrote the tales, incorporating them into existing fairy-tale traditions, inspiring new writings, and often introducing new uncertainties of meaning into the already ambiguous stories. Contributors in the second part, Reframings, Paratexts, and Multimedia Translations, shed light on how the Grimms’ tales were affected by intermedial adaptation when traveling abroad. These six chapters focus on illustrations, manga, and film and television adaptations. In all, contributors take a wide view of the tales’ history in a range of locales—including Poland, China, Croatia, India, Japan, and France. Grimms’ Tales around the Globe shows that the tales, with their paradox between the universal and the local and their long and world-spanning translation history, form a unique and exciting corpus for the study of reception. Fairy-tale and folklore scholars as well as readers interested in literary history and translation will appreciate this enlightening volume.

Literatures in African Languages

Literatures in African Languages
Author: B. W. Andrzejewski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 678
Release: 1985-11-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521256461

Although African literatures in English and French are widely known outside Africa, those in the African languages themselves have not received comparable attention. In this book a number have been selected for survey by fourteen specialist writers, providing the reader with an introduction to this very wide field and a body of reference material which includes extensive bibliographies and biographical information on African authors. Theoretical issues such as genre divisions are discussed in the essays and the historical, social and political forces at work in the creation and reception of African literature are examined. Literature is treated as an art whose medium is language, so that both the oral and written forms are encompassed. This book will be of value not only to readers concerned with the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in the literary phenomena of the world in general.

THE TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE

THE TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE
Author: CHARLES PERRAULT
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages:
Release: 1956
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Tales Of Mother Goose As First Collected By Charles Perrault In 1696 A New Translation By Charles Welsh Illustrated By D.J. Munro AFTER DRAWINGS BY GUSTAVE DORE

The Complete Fairy Tales

The Complete Fairy Tales
Author: Charles Perrault
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-10-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0199585806

Perrault's fairy tales in a scintillating new translation, including the less familiar verse tales and with illustrations by Gustave Doré. The introduction explores the imaginative power of the stories and the many interpretations to which they have been subject.

Contes de Fees

Contes de Fees
Author: Charles Perrault
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2015-02-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781296279288

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