Simulating oralities: French fairy tales of the 1690s.

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  • Author(s): Harries, Elizabeth W.
  • Source:
    College Literature. Jun96, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p100. 16p. 4 Black and White Photographs.
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    • Abstract:
      Examines written fairy tales authored by women in the late 1690s in France. Fairy tales' appeal to the oral tradition and simulation of conversation that animated salons of the seventeenth century; Myth about the role for women in the transmission of fairy tales; Identification of the oral with peasant or folk culture; Discussion of Charles Perrault's collection entitled `Contes.'