Cinderella’s Metamorphoses: A Comparative Study of Two English Translations of Perrault’s Tales
Choose format
RIS BIB ENDNOTECinderella’s Metamorphoses: A Comparative Study of Two English Translations of Perrault’s Tales
Publication date: 05.11.2013
Przekładaniec, Issues in English, Special Issue 2013 – Selection from the Archives, pp. 171-188
https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864ePC.13.044.1461Authors
Translators
Cinderella’s Metamorphoses: A Comparative Study of Two English Translations of Perrault’s Tales
This comparative analysis of two translations of Charles Perrault’s “Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufl e de verre” shows how the French conte was adapted for children in England at different moments and refl ects different projects. Robert Samber’s “Cinderilla: or, The Little Glass Slipper,” published in Histories, or Tales of Past Times. With Morals (1729), is known as the fi rst English translation of the tale. More recently, Angela Carter’s retranslation “Cinderella: or, The Little Glass Slipper,” published in The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (1977), pays homage to Samber but also modernises the tale to carry a more emancipatory message. While Samber’s translation refl ects the working conditions of Grub Street writers and acculturation of Perrault’s fairy tale in Protestant England, Carter gives it a feminist twist as she turns it into a “fable of the politics of experience.” She would later rewrite it as “Ashputtle or The Mother’s Ghost” (1987), this time using Manheim’s English translation of the Grimms’ “Aschenputtel” as a starting point.
Adam, J.M., and U. Heidmann. 2009. Le Texte Littéraire: Pour une Approche Interdisciplinaire. Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia Bruylant.
Barchilon, J. 1960. “Introduction.” J. Barchilon, H. Pettit. The Authentic Mother Goose Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes. Denver: Alan Swallow.
Barchilon, J., and H. Pettit. 1960. The Authentic Mother Goose Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes. Denver: Alan Swallow.
Blom, J.M. 1989. “The Life and Works of Robert Samber (1682 -– ±1745).,” English Studies, LXX, 6, 518–519.
Carter, A. 1977. “Foreword.” The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Ill. Martin Ware. London: Victor Gollancz, 17.
Carter, A. 1987a. “Ashputtle or The Mother’s Ghost.” The Virago Book of Ghost Stories. London: Virago.
Carter, A. 1987b. Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings. London: Vintage.
Carter, A. 1998a [1983]. Notes from the Front Line. A. Carter. Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writtings. London: Vintage. 36–43.
Carter, A. 1998b. “The Better to Eat You With.” In: A. Carter. Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings. London: Vintage, 55–81.
Derrida, J. and A. Ronell. 1980. “The Law of Genre.” Critical Inquiry 7 (1), On Narrative, 55–81. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343176
Dryden, J. 1681. “The Preface.” In: Ovid’s Epistles: With His Amours. 2nd ed. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, npn.
Haase, D. 2004. “Feminist Fairy-Tale Scholarship.” In: Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches. Ed. D. Haase. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1–36.
Carter, A. ed. and trans. 2008. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. London, Penguin: “Modern Classics.”
Carter, A., ed. and trans. 1982. Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales. Iill. Michael Foreman. London: Gollancz.
Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, M. 2013. Reading, Translating, Rewriting: Angela Carter’s Translational Poetics. Detroit: Wayne State UP.
Johnson, S. 1828. A Dictionary of the English Language. Vol. 1. Heidelberg: published by Joseph Engelman.
Lang, A., ed. 1965 (1889). The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover Publications Inc., npn.
Lathey, G. 2010. The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature: Invisible Storytellers. New York and London: Routledge.
Malarte-Feldman, C.L. 1999. “The Challenges of Translating Perrault’s Contes into English.” Marvels & Tales, XII, 1, 184–187.
Meschonnic, H. 1999. Poétique du Traduire. Paris: Verdier.
Opie, I., and P. Opie 1974. The Classic Fairy Tales. London: Oxford University Press.
Perrault, C. 1981. Contes, Ed. J.P. by Collinet J.P., Paris: Gallimard (Folio Classique).
Pope, A. 1796. “Preface.” In: The Iliad of Homer. London: H. Baldwin.
Sorel, C. 1664. “De la traduction.” In: Bibliothèque Française. Paris.
Spivak, G.C. 2004. “The Politics of Translation.” In: The Translation Studies Reader. Ed. L. Venuti. London: Routledge (2nd edition), 369–388.
Venuti, L. 2004. “Retranslations: The Creation of Value.,” Bucknell Review, XLVII, 1.
Verdier, G. 1997. “De ma Mère l’Oye à Mother Goose: La Fortune de Conte de Fées littéraires Français en Angleterre.” In: Y. Giraud. Contacts Culturels et Echanges Linguistiques an XVIIe siècle en France. Seattle: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 185–202.
Zipes, J. 2008. “Introduction.,” In: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. Ed. aand trans. A. Carter. London: Penguin, “Modern Classics,” vii–xxvii.
Information: Przekładaniec, Issues in English, Special Issue 2013 – Selection from the Archives, pp. 171-188
Article type: Original article
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Published at: 05.11.2013
Article status: Open
Licence: None
Percentage share of authors:
Article corrections:
-Publication languages:
EnglishView count: 2843
Number of downloads: 3886