| Description |
1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
JSTOR EBA
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- I: Restoration and Rise -- 2: Ragged Poverty and the Promise of Magic -- 3: A Possible Biography for Zoan Francesco Straparola Da Caravaggio -- 4: Straparola at his Desk -- 5: Straparola's Little Books and their Lasting Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of these familiar tales. According to her, a provincial boy, Zoan Francesco Straparola, went to Venice to seek his fortune and found it by inventing the modern fairy tale, including the long beloved Puss in Boots, and by selling its many versions to the hopeful inhabitants of that colorful and commercially bustling city.With innovative literary sleuthing, Bottigheimer has reconstructed the actual composition of Straparola's collection of tales. Grounding her work in social history of the Renaissance Venice, Bottigheimer has created a possible biography for Straparola, a man about whom hardly anything is known. This is the first book-length study of Straparola in any language |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index |
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Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557? Piacevoli notti
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Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557? -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice
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Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, ca. 1480-1557? -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice
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Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, ca. 1480-1557? Piacevoli notti
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Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557? fast |
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Piacevoli notti (Straparola, Giovanni Francesco) fast |
| Subject |
Fairy tales in literature.
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Magic in literature.
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Fairy tales -- Italy -- History and criticism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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Fairy tales
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Fairy tales in literature
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Homes
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Intellectual life
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Magic in literature
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| SUBJECT |
Venice (Italy) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
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| Subject |
Italy
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Italy -- Venice
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002020425 |
| ISBN |
9780812201390 |
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0812201396 |
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