Title: Henri Pourrat and the Tradition of Perrault and the Brothers Grimm
Abstract: In their endeavors to assess the significance of Henri Pourraťs remarkable collection of tales, Le Trésor des Contes (The Treasury of Tales), published in thirteen volumes between 1948–1962, numerous critics have placed Pourrat in the tradition of Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. For instance, Maurice Bémol has remarked: Like that of the Brothers Grimm, Henri Pourraťs effort was in effect concentrated on the tale [conte]. Like them he incorporated all sorts of proverbs, sentences, expressions, refrains, and small poems, but it was the tale that served to frame those other products of folk culture and that was the principal preoccupation of the author… . Within the total corpus of their work, the Brothers Grimm and Pourrat brought together an aesthetic preoccupation with a documentary and scientific one… . Henri Pourrat was also just as much attached as his German predecessors to what they called fidelity to the folk tradition in spirit as well as in word.1 KeywordsOral TraditionFairy TaleCommon PeopleLiterary TraditionFolk TraditionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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