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Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale
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From eighteenth-century courtiers to Cocteau, from Freudians to prime-time TV, "Beauty and the Beast" has captured the artistic and popular imagination. Betsy Hearne brings a storyteller's verve and insight to an examination of one of western culture's most powerful and persistent myths. She explores the story's folkloristic background and then tra...more
From eighteenth-century courtiers to Cocteau, from Freudians to prime-time TV, "Beauty and the Beast" has captured the artistic and popular imagination. Betsy Hearne brings a storyteller's verve and insight to an examination of one of western culture's most powerful and persistent myths. She explores the story's folkloristic background and then tra...more
Hardcover, 247 pages
Published
December 15th 1989
by University Of Chicago Press
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There were points at which I was not entirely convinced by Hearne's interpretations, but overall it was a very interesting study of the permutations of the tale. The research is very solid, and the intelligence and naturalness of Hearne's ideas and prose style are especially evident in contrast to the pretentious, faux-academic BS appendix, which to me read almost like a satire of the sort of ungrounded, self-indulgent theoretical interpretation that makes people without PhDs mock literary criti...more
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This is one of the first academic books I ever read, as a high school student. I was fascinated by this (to me) new way at looking at literature. There have been many new versions of Beauty and the Beast since this book was published (most obviously the Disney movie), so some of its discussions are now a bit out of date, but it was still a good survey of the different versions of Beauty & the Beast through the years.
A very interesting comparison/analysis of various English versions of the classic tale "Beauty and the Beast".
Very good and informative. Highly recommended in if you are interested in Beauty and the Beast.
Just a bit of reading on one of my favorite fairytales. It's very interesting to read.
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