French Fairy Tales

Introduction

PART I. THE MIDDLE AGES: FEUDALISM AND "LA SOCIéTé COURTOISE"

1. Melusine: "The Beauty of Things is Fleet and Swift"

PART II. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: "LE GRAND SIÈCLE"

2. Charles Perrault's Multi-Veined Donkey Skin, Sleeping Beauty, and Bluebeard

3. Mme d'Aulnoy's The Bluebird-Metamorphosis, an Unconscious Readjustment

PART III. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: "L'ESPRIT PHILOSOPHIQUE"

4. Denis Diderot's The White Bird-As Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit

5. Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Fantastic Queen Merely a Tongue-in-Cheek Fairy Tale?

PART IV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: "LE ROMANTISME"-ESTHETIC AND UTILITARIAN

6. Charles Nodier's The Crumb Fairy-A Sacred Marriage of Sun and Moon

7. Théophile Gautier's Parapsychological Hetaera/Fairy: Arria Marcella

8. Countess Sophie De Ségur's Rosette-A Manichean Merry-Go-Round

9. George Sand's The Castle Of Crooked Peak-The Topography of Memory Manipulation

10. Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas and Mélisande-The Dying Complex

PART V. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SLAUGHTER/SCIENCE/ SPIRITUALITY

11. Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast-"The Plucking of a Rose"

12. Andrée Chedid's The Suspended Heart-The Mystery of Being

CONCLUSION

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX