From court to forest :: Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti and the birth of the literary fairy tale /

From Court to Forest is a critical and historical study of the beginnings of the modern literary fairy tale. Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti, written in Neapolitan dialect and published in 1634-36, comprises fifty fairy tales and was the first integral collection of literary fairy ta...

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1. Verfasser: Canepa, Nancy L., 1957-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Italian
Veröffentlicht: Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, ©1999.
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Zusammenfassung:From Court to Forest is a critical and historical study of the beginnings of the modern literary fairy tale. Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti, written in Neapolitan dialect and published in 1634-36, comprises fifty fairy tales and was the first integral collection of literary fairy tales to appear in Western Europe. It contains some of the best known fairy-tales types, such as Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and others, many in their earliest versions. Although it became a central reference point for subsequent fairy-tale writers, such as Perrault and the Grimms, as well as a treasure chest for folklorists, Lo cunto de li cunti has had relatively little attention devoted to it by literary scholars.
This work fills a gap in fairy-tale and Italian literary studies through its rediscovery of one of the most important authors of the Italian Baroque and the genre of the literary fairy tale.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (333 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-321) and index.
ISBN:9780814338308
0814338305

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