Beautiful Angiola
Beautiful Braids
Beautiful Maiden
castle
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comparative folklore studies
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Death Bells
Desolate Region
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ethnographic tale collection
European oral literature
fairy
Fairy Tales
father
folk
Gold Cups
Gold Fish
Good Life
Good Spirits
Half Crazy
Handsome Young Man
Ho Ho
Innkeeper's Wife
Innkeeper’s Wife
Lime Kiln
magic
Magic Stick
maiden
narrative motif analysis
nineteenth-century Sicilian folk narratives
oral narrative traditions
Poor Princess
royal
Sicilian storytelling research
Son's Room
Son’s Room
spell
Stable Boy
tales
Time To Say Good Bye
Twelve Apostles
Wet Nurse
Wild Man
Witch's Daughter
Witch’s Daughter
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415977227
- Weight: 1111g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura Gonzenbach, a talented Swiss-German born in Sicily, set out to gather up the tales told and retold among the peasants. Gonzenbach collected wonderful stories - some on subjects that readers will know from the Grimms or Perrault, some entirely new - and published them in German. Her early death and the destruction of her papers in the Messina earthquake of 1908 only add to the mystery behind her achievement. Beautiful Angiola is an instant classic: a nineteenth-century collection of stories in the great tradition of fairy and folk tales now translated into English for the first time. Gonzenbach delights us with heroines and princes, sorcery and surprise, the deeds of the brave and the treacherous, and the magic of the true storyteller. The Green Bird , The Humiliated Princess , sorfarina , The Magic Cane, the Golden Donkey, and the Little Stick that Hits are titles destine to become new favourites for readers everywhere. Yet while the stories enchant us, the wry taglines with which they often end ("And so they remained rich and consoled, while we keep sitting here and are getting old") gently bring us back to earth.
Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. An acclaimed translator and scholar of children's literature and culture, his most recent books include Hans Christian Andersen: The MisunderstoodStoryteller and Speaking Out: Storytelling and CreativeDrama for Children, both published by Routledge.
