The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany

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  • The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany Book Detail

  • Author : Francois-Marie Luzel
  • Release Date : 2024-01-16
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 264
  • ISBN 13 : 0691252696
  • File Size : 19,19 MB
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The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany by Francois-Marie Luzel PDF Summary

Book Description: "The French folklorist and Breton-language poet François-Marie Luzel (1826-1895) published several volumes of Breton tales that he collected in Brittany and translated into French. Unlike many nineteenth-century folklorists, including the Brothers Grimm, who relied on correspondents to conduct much of their scholarly research, Luzel and his sister Perrine transcribed nearly all of the tales they collected by spending many winter nights at Breton veillees, social gatherings that took place in houses and cottages throughout Brittany during the winter months of darkness, where communities of family and neighbors would come together to tell traditional stories and share news, gossip, and songs. The folklorist Michael Wilson has translated 29 of Luzel's French tales into English for this volume. Many of these tales have never appeared in English; others have not been translated into English for nearly a century. The tales are organized into a series of five veillees to capture the full context of the tales' original performance at these gatherings. Introductory material provides historical and literary context about Luzel, his surprisingly modern approach to collecting and publishing folk tales, and the Breton culture he worked throughout his life to preserve"--

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