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Author Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Title Fairy godfather : Straparola, Venice, and the fairy tale tradition / Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations
Series JSTOR EBA
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
Analysis Anthropology
Cultural Studies
Folklore
Linguistics
Literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index
Subject Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557? Piacevoli notti
Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557? -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice
Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, ca. 1480-1557? -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice
Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, ca. 1480-1557? Piacevoli notti
Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557?
SUBJECT Piacevoli notti (Straparola, Giovanni Francesco) fast
Subject Fairy tales in literature.
Magic in literature.
Fairy tales -- Italy -- History and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Fairy tales
Fairy tales in literature
Homes
Intellectual life
Magic in literature
Venice (Italy) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
Italy
Italy -- Venice
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002020425
ISBN 9780812201390
0812201396