The conte
Subtitle: oral and written dynamics
By: [edited by] Janice Carruthers and Maeve McCusker.
Contributors: Carruthers, Janice, 1964-; McCusker, Maeve.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9783039118700
Subjects: Folk literature, French -- History and criticism; Fairy tales -- France -- History and criticism; Fairy tales -- French-speaking countries -- History and criticism; Orality in literature; Oral tradition -- France; Oral tradition -- French-speaking countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Some essays in French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: contextualising the oral-written dynamic in the French and francophone conte / Janice Carruthers and Maeve McCusker; title: The shadow of orality in the Voltaire conte / Richard Francis; title: Mises en scène de l'oralité dans les récits-cadres de Mme D'Aulnoy: les enjeux / Sophie Raynard; title: A new history for fairy tales / Ruth Bottigheimer; title: Definition, repression and the oral/literary interface in the French literary conte from the folie du conte to the second empire / Tim Farrant; title: Une interface paradoxale au XVIII siècle: conte merveilleux et bibliothèque des savoirs chez Thomas-Simon Gueullette / Jean-François Perrin; title: Du conte parodique au conte pédagogique: le prince désir de Mme le Prince de Beaumont / Anne Defrance; title: The Creole folktale in the writing of Lafcadio Hearn: an aesthetic of mediation / Mary Gallagher; title: Mastering the word: appropriations of the conte Créole in Antillean theory / Maeve McCusker; title: The politics of orality and allegory in the African conte / Andy Stafford; title: Autour de quelques contes maghrébins en situation interculturelle: création d'un texte à l'interface oral/écrit / Nadine Decourt; title: The oral/written dynamic in new storytelling in French / Janice Carruthers; title: Tense switching in French oral narratives / Janice Carruthers; title: Parallélismes et contes oraux bas-bretons: niveaux, rôles et fonctions / Janice Carruthers.