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Carlo
Carlo Collodil
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Dacia Maraini
Decameron
early Italian literature
early modern Italy
Emma Perodi
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Fairy tales
Fairy tales - Italy
Fairy tales history and criticism
Fairy tales social aspects
Fairy tales study and teaching
female protagonists
Fiabe fantastiche: le novelle della nonna
Fiabe italiane
Fiabe teatrali
Fiction
Folk literature
Folk literature history and criticism
Folk narrative
Folk tale
Folklore and mythology
folklore in post-war Italy
Giambattista Basile
Gianni Rodari
Giorgio Manganelli
Giovan Battista
Giovan Francesco
Giovan Francesco Straparola
Girolamo
Giuseppe Pitrel
Giuseppe Pitrel Carlo Collodil
Gozzi
Grazia Deledda
Guido Gozzano
Italian cultural history
Italian Fairy Tales
Italian literature
Italo Calvino
Italy
Laura Gonzenbach
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Le piacevoli notti
literary fairy tales
Lo cunto de li cunti
Luigi Capuana
Luigi Malerba
Morlini
Perrault
persecution of the innocent
Pinocchio
Pompeo
post-war Italy
Roberto Piumini
Sarnelli
Straparola
Tales
the Brothers Grimm
The Golden Age
The Tale of Tales
up to 1550
Product details
- ISBN 9780814334751
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Wayne State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Disney. But the first literary fairy tales appeared in Renaissance Italy, and long before the Grimms there was already a rich and sophisticated tradition that included hundreds of tales, including many of those today considered "classic." The authors featured in this volume have, over the centuries, explored and interrogated the intersections between elite and popular cultures and oral and literary narratives, just as they have investigated the ways in which fairy tales have been and continue to be rewritten as expressions of both collective identities and individual sensibilities. The fairy tale in its Italian incarnations provides a striking example of how this genre is a potent vehicle for expressing cultural aspirations and anxieties as well as for imagining different ways of narrating shared futures.
Nancy L. Canepa is associate professor of Italian at Dartmouth College. She is the editor of Teaching Fairy Tales (Wayne State University Press, 2019) and translator of Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones (Wayne State University Press, 2007).
