Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale: Author: Betsy Gould Hearne: Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised: Publisher: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: "Beauty and the Beast": Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale. By Betsy Hearne. (Chi-cago: University of Chicago Press, Pp. xv + , preface, 40 illustrations, 4 notes, ap-pendixes, index. $) KAY F. STONE University of Winnipeg Children's literature, like folklore, is at its best an interdisciplinary field of inquiry drawing. · In setting out to chart the various courses taken by the ''Beauty and the Beast'' motif during the history of printed literature in her book, subtitled ''Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
Buy Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale by Hearne, Betsy Gould (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Traces the familiar tale from its folklore origins, through its literary shaping in the s, the moral instruction and lavish illustrations of the s, to the modern psychological interpretations in books, movies, and television. Isolates common motives in such elements as character, narrative voice, image, object, and symbol. The illustrations include 12 superb color reproductions. She has written and collaborated on many books, one was published in , "Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale." Hearne discusses her upbringing in southern Alabama where her parents pioneered a rural clinic for poor whites and African Americans.
This is by far the best book on the subject of 'Beauty and the Beast' ever written. Betsy Hearne takes an insightful look at the fairy tale and its many versions throughout the centuries. Unfortunately its time span is only from the 's to the early 's, thus excluding any discussion of the Ron Koslow television series or the Disney. 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 traces the modern tale from its literary shaping in the mids through its re-creations in the form of chapbook, drama, poetry, novel, picturebook. Beauty And The Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale: Betsy Hearne The Lion and the Unicorn, Volume 12, Number 2, December , pp. (Article) Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press DOI: /uni For additional information about this article Access provided by Wayne State University (5 Jan GMT).
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