the tales of mother goose charles perrault

The animation is gorgeous (and so wonderfully blue), the music is properly serious and its storytelling is tightly woven. I’ve always been partial to Cinderella (the best princess movie from the pre-Eisener (post-Walt) era, before the Mouse House turned “princess” into a dirty word). So I was surprised to discover that Charles Perrault’s 17th Century version of Cinderella was, with the exception of an extra ball and a lack of talking mice, the clear source for Walt’s masterpiece. I had always been under the assumption that Disney’s early fairy tale movies were glossy, post-WWII bastardizations of the earlier versions of the tales.

“Concepts of Collaboration: Märchenomas, the Woman Writer, and the Brothers Grimm” – chapter for collection, Gender, Collaboration and Authorship in German Culture: Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850.Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper - My first Disney surprise of the volume.

“Following the Trail of Cookies and Breadcrumbs: Taking the Fairy Tale Course Online” – chapter for collection Teaching Fairy Tales.“When the Inexhaustible Purse Runs Dry: Bettina von Arnim’s “Tale of the Lucky Purse.” Marvels & Tales.“Fairy Tales and Folktales” In Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies.“The Persecuted History of Cinderella: A Case for Oral Tradition in Europe.” Gramarye 10 (2016): 29-41.Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy.Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World.Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.“Thoughts on ‘Heroinism’ in French Fairy Tales”.“Mother Goose’s French Birth (1697) and British Afterlife (1729)”.Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives.Mother Goose Refigured: A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales.In season one of the Roots of Lore podcast, we’ll be diving into Charles Perrault’s fairy tales: Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose. So in this first episode, let’s set the scene of who was Perrault? What was the world like that birthed these stories? What influences do we see a play? And how do the Grimm brothers fit into these stories?

1 – Charles Perrault: The Man Behind Mother Goose

The tales of mother goose charles perrault