Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Middle Ages: Feudalism and "La Societe Courtoise"
  • Ch. 1 Melusine: "The Beauty of Things is Fleet and Swift"
  • pt. II Seventeenth Century: "Le Grand Siecle"
  • Ch. 2 Charles Perrault's Multi-Veined Donkey Skin, Sleeping Beauty, and Bluebeard
  • Ch. 3 Mme d'Aulnoy's The Bluebird
  • Metamorphosis, an Unconscious Readjustment
  • pt. III Eighteenth Century: "L'Esprit Philosophique"
  • Ch. 4 Denis Diderot's The White Bird
  • As Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit
  • Ch. 5 Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Fantastic Queen Merely a Tongue-in-Cheek Fairy Tale?
  • pt. IV Nineteenth Century: "Le Romantisme"
  • Esthetic and Utilitarian
  • Ch. 6 Charles Nodier's The Crumb Fairy
  • A Sacred Marriage of Sun and Moon
  • Ch. 7 Theophile Gautier's Parapsychological Hetaera/Fairy: Arria Marcella
  • Ch. 8 Countess Sophie De Segur's Rosette
  • A Manichean Merry-Go-Round
  • Ch. 9 George Sand's The Castle Of Crooked Peak
  • The Topography of Memory Manipulation
  • Ch. 10 Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande
  • The Dying Complex
  • pt. V Twentieth Century: Slaughter/Science/Spirituality
  • Ch. 11 Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
  • "The Plucking of a Rose"
  • Ch. 12 Andree Chedid's The Suspended Heart
  • The Mystery of Being.