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Kudlick, Catherine J. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2009
This article reads two late nineteenth century short stories--one by Guy de Maupassant and the other by Louisa May Alcott--through the interpretive framework of Critical Disability Studies. It contrasts the traditional view of disability as a deficit or pathology that befalls certain unfortunate individuals with a newer one that understands it…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Blindness, Attitudes toward Disabilities, At Risk Persons
Elcombe, Marie Louise Crapoulet – French Rev, 1970
Descriptors: Authors, French Literature, Literary Criticism, Local Color Writing
Hearn, Michael Patrick – Teaching and Learning Literature with Children and Young Adults, 1998
Discusses the work of Frenchman Charles Perrault, the seminal figure in fairy tales, and puts it in context of the French fairy tale fashion. Describes how the fairy tale came to England. Describes how the Germans revived the fairy tale at the end of the 18th century, and discusses the work of the Brothers Grimm. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Fables