French Fairy Tales

French Fairy TalesOffers an analysis of fourteen French fairy tales, from the medieval Romance of Mlusine to Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast, exploring their universal and eternal nature as well as their relevance to modern readers. Bettina L. Knapp explores the universal and eternal nature of fourteen French fairy tales, including the medieval Romance of Mlusine, Charles Perrault's seventeenth century versions of Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard, and

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an extensive introduction and commentary show how Chapman combines the literary and theatrical traditions of ancient Rome with everyday life in his own time to fashion a sparkling and innovative comedy that will delight audiences today as much as it did those of 1599

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ethical issues facing military service in the United States

Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals

The contributors offer empirically grounded yet theoretically sophisticated case studies showing how gendered

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the work of all three artist-scholars raises important issues about memory