The willing suspension of belief in the French seventeenth century fairy tale
All is rarely as it seems in French seventeenth century artistic activity. The spirit of préciosité, the art of exploiting, playfully, all the implications of a chosen topic, found a perfect vehicle in the fairy tale. The games played with the genre in that artistic climate focus on marvellous liter...
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All is rarely as it seems in French seventeenth century artistic activity. The spirit of préciosité, the art of exploiting, playfully, all the implications of a chosen topic, found a perfect vehicle in the fairy tale. The games played with the genre in that artistic climate focus on marvellous literature’s profoundest paradox: to believe, or to disbelieve. |
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