Download or read book Out of the Woods written by Nancy L. Canepa and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering over 300 years, this volume of essays articulates the literary, ideological and historical contexts in which fairy tales evolved in Italy and France. The tales analyzed were each appropriated from oral tradition by professional men and women of letters and thus reveal a cultural history

Download or read book King Solomon and the Golden Fish written by Matilda Koén-Sarano and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifty-four Judeo-Spanish folktales taken from the rich heritage of Sephardic oral storytelling and translated into English for the first time.

Download or read book Types and Motifs of the Judeo Spanish Folktales RLE Folklore written by Reginetta Haboucha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental book, first published in 1992, represents a major contribution to Sephardic and Hispanic studies as well as to comparative folklore scholarship in a worldwide perspective. After many years of fieldwork and extensive archival investigations in Spain, Israel and the United States, the author has brought together and analysed a massive body of primary sources. This is the first collection of Sephardic narratives offered to the English-speaking reader, and constitutes an important addition to the understanding of Sephardic cultural tradition.

Download or read book The Enchanted Boot written by Nancy L. Canepa and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English. 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.

Download or read book Athanor 2000 written by Susan Petrilli and published by Meltemi Editore srl. This book was released on 2000 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tale of Tales written by Giambattista Basile and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking, bawdy collection of 50 fairy tales told by 10 storytellers over five days follows the compilation efforts of 17th-century Italian poet Giambattista Basile and traces the experiences of a cursed princess who would win back her betrothed.

Download or read book Il magico mondo delle fiabe written by Maria Raffaella Porcu and published by Booksprint. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principesse, eroi, gnomi, villaggi popolati da bravi uomini che cercano di condurre tranquillamente la loro vita, animali che si trasformano... Si dipanano tra questi personaggi e molti altri, e tra luoghi più o meno inventati, le fiabe dell’autrice. Tutte delicate, gentili, dolci, ben delineate e narrate. Lo stile è molto semplice e fiabesco, tipico dei libri per bambini. A cui, infatti, è dedicata l’opera. Che però, ad un’attenta lettura da parte dei genitori, può trovare spunti di riflessione anche per i più grandi, capaci di cogliere tra le righe anche insegnamenti ad un livello più colto. La stessa brevità dei racconti rende l’intera opera godibile e leggibile anche tutta d’un fiato. Le fiabe si susseguono sciolte e lineari, il libro si lascia leggere piacevolmente, rappresentando una buona lettura per bambini sia per dargli la buona notte, ed allietare così i loro sonni, sia come passatempo pomeridiano, senz’altro di un livello culturale migliore di quanto spesso offrano televisione o Internet. Le emozioni raccontate sono ovviamente semplici, chiare, espresse in forma libera e senza particolari giochi letterari. Lo stile fiabesco è rispettato in pieno, a partire dai canovacci delle storie fino ai loro personaggi. Per questo chi legge le fiabe si ritrova piacevolmente coinvolto in mondi paralleli, in cui la fantasia è libera di spaziare

Download or read book Italian Folktales in America written by Elizabeth Mathias and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers fairy tales told by Clementina Todesco, an Italian immigrant, offers background information about her life in Italy and America, and explains how and when the tales were told

Download or read book Ecstasies written by Carlo Ginzburg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.

Download or read book The Tale of the Kind and the Unkind Girls written by Warren Everett Roberts and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the great study of the migration and metamorphosis of a tale. Originally published by de Gruyter in 1958. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Est Antigoriu written by Claudia Zedda and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Est Antigoriu è un viaggio in terra sarda, un mosaico di profumi, usi, tradizioni, folklore e sentimento isolano che dà forma all'isola esattamente come l'autrice la percepisce. E' lo stesso titolo a definire la terra sarda antica, nel fascino, nella cultura, nella gastronomia, nell'arte e nell'architettura, nei suoni e in quei sentimenti che sparpaglia come grano al vento, capace come s'è dimostrata di trattenere dell'antico solo il meglio. L'isola viene letta e riletta sotto diversi aspetti: con gli occhi di donna tradita, amata, protetta o esposta, con lo sguardo delle Dee che l'hanno abitata, rivivendo feste, attraversando malattie e cure, sognando della Sardegna di ieri e ripercorrendone la storia attraverso l'arte che al suo interno vide nascere, d'intreccio, di pittura, di foto.

Download or read book Oedipus written by Lowell Edmunds and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classicist Lowell Edmunds and folklorist Alan Dundes both note that “the Oedipus tale is not likely to ever fade from view in Western civilization, [as] the tale continues to pack a critical family drama into a timeless form.” Looking beyond the story related in Sophocles’ drama—the ancient Theban myth of the son who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother—Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook examines variations of the tale from Africa and South America to Eastern Europe and the Pacific. Taking sociological, psychological, anthropological, and structuralist perspectives, the nineteen essays reveal the complexities and multiple meanings of this centuries-old tale. In addition to the well-known interpretations of the Oedipus myth by Sigmund Freud and James Frazer, this casebook includes insightful selections by an international group of scholars. Essays on a Serbian Oedipus legend by Friedrich Krauss and on a Gypsy version by Mirella Karpati, for example, stress the psychological stages of atonement after the Oedipus figure learns the truth about his actions. Anthropologist Melford E. Spiro investigates the myth’s appearance in Burma and the significance of the mother’s identification with the dragon (the sphinx figure). Vladimir Propp’s essay, translated into English for the first time, and Lowell Edmunds’s theoretical review discuss the relation of the Oedipus story to the larger study of folklore. The result is a comprehensive and fascinating casebook for students of folklore, classical mythology, anthropology, and sociology.

Download or read book The Italian Novella written by Gloria Allaire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from work on the Decameron , the epitome of the genre, to studies of sixteenth century authors who often utilized transgressive or sexual themes in their novellas.

Download or read book Giambattista Basile s The Tale of Tales Or Entertainment for Little Ones written by Giambattista Basile and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile's monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634-1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.

Download or read book The 8th Congress for the International Society for Folk Narrative Research written by International Society for Folk Narrative Research. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Papers written by International Society for Folk Narrative Research. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Folktales and Fairy Tales 4 volumes written by Anne E. Duggan Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 1751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.