Madame d’Aulnoy’s “The White Cat”: A Factographic Fairy Tale

4区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-27 DOI:10.1353/mat.2021.0020

S. Barzilai

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Abstract

Abstract:In “The White Cat” (1698), Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy controverts received notions of the fairy tale in length, complexity, and subject matter by presenting a covert critique of the symbolic paternal order she inhabited: the society revolving around the absolutist Louis XIV of France. When embedded in sociocultural, political, and personal contexts, this tale thus invites reading as a factographic text grounded in lived experience. Part 1 foregrounds several precursor texts interwoven into d’Aulnoy’s narrative. Retelling old tales dissociates her subversive story from direct correlation with the author. Part 2 examines the repetitive motif of emboîtement or enclosure throughout “The White Cat” and its generative causes.

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德奥尔诺瓦夫人的《白猫:一个虚构的童话》

摘要:在《白猫》(1698)中，玛丽-凯瑟琳·德奥尔诺瓦对她所处的以专制主义者路易十四为中心的社会象征性父权秩序进行了隐秘性的批判，从而在篇幅、复杂性和主题上对童话故事的固有观念提出了质疑。当嵌入到社会文化、政治和个人背景中时，这个故事就会被当作一个基于生活经验的因素文本来阅读。第一部分强调了在达尔诺瓦的叙述中交织的几个先驱文本。重述旧故事使她的颠覆性故事与作者的直接联系分离开来。第二部分考察了贯穿《白猫》的体现或包围的重复主题及其产生原因。

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期刊介绍： Marvels & Tales (ISSN: 1521-4281) was founded in 1987 by Jacques Barchilon at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally known as Merveilles & contes, the journal expressed its role as an international forum for folktale and fairy-tale scholarship through its various aliases: Wunder & Märchen, Maravillas & Cuentos, Meraviglie & Racconti, and Marvels & Tales. In 1997, the journal moved to Wayne State University Press and took the definitive title Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. From the start, Marvels & Tales has served as a central forum for the multidisciplinary study of fairy tales. In its pages, contributors from around the globe have published studies, texts, and translations of fairy-tales from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. The Editorial Policy of Marvels & Tales encourages scholarship that introduces new areas of fairy-tale scholarship, as well as research that considers the traditional fairy-tale canon from new perspectives. The journal''s special issues have been particularly popular and have focused on topics such as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Romantic Tale," "Charles Perrault," "Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Literature," "The Italian Tale," and "Angela Carter and the Literary Märchen." Marvels & Tales is published every April and October by Wayne State University Press.