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New Poetics versus Old Print: Fairy Tales, Animal Fables, and the Gaulois Past
- Marvels & Tales
- Wayne State University Press
- Volume 21, Number 1, 2007
- pp. 93-106
- 10.1353/mat.2007.a241663
- Article
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Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier’s dedications and frame-tale discussions show her carefully crafting moral fairy-tale texts as part of the Moderns’ cultural agenda. Despite the degree to which her thinking, and to a certain extent, that of Mme d’Aulnoy, overlapped with that of the Abbé de Villiers, he excoriated all fairy tales except those of Charles Perrault. Underlying all three authors’ arguments is a sense of fairy tales as literary texts rather than as cultural patrimony.