Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Tales in Theory: The Role of the Folktale in the Development of Narratology
  • 2. Theory in Tales: Cycles, Levels, and Frames
  • 3. The Idea of the Folktale in Italo Calvino
  • Italian Folktales: Text and Contexts
  • First Idea: Tradition and Ideology
  • Second Idea: Singular Fantasies
  • Third Idea: A "Geometry of Story-Telling"
  • 4. Narrative Turns
  • John Barth, Author of the Arabian Nights.
  • "Familiarity Breeds Consent": Robert Coover and the Fairy Tale
  • 5. Craftiness and Cruelty: A Reading of the Fairy Tale and Its Place in Recent Feminist Fictions
  • "Curiosity ... Is Insubordination in Its Purest Form"
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.