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Preserving the spell : Basile's The Tale of Tales and its afterlife in the fairy-tale tradition /
Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous-in the hands of Hollywood, they have been stripped of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dancing backward: an introduction
- "Cupid and Psyche", The Tale of Tales, and the birth of Western fairy tale. A never ending and never told tale: Basile's undoing of "Cupid and Psyche" ; Orpheus, the King of the Birds, moves to Sicily with Cupid and Psyche: Laura Gonzenbach's "King Cardiddu" ; Melancholy is the best storyteller: Oil, water, and blood from Gonzenbach back to Basile
- The Italian tales and German Romanticism: The Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano, Novalis. What we leave behind: fairies, letters, rose petals, and sprigs of myrtle ; The fairy, the myrtle, and the myrtle-maiden: from Basile to the Grimms and Brentano ; How to undo the Tale of Tales: Brentano and the end of fairy tales ; Where are the ogresses of yesteryear? The Neapolitan Cupids and Psyches in the hands of the Brothers Grimm ; Beauty, Zulima, and Aline: the marvel preceding and following the world according to Novalis
- American postmodernism, memoirs, and a new beginning. "You will never awaken because the story you were in no longer exists": Coover, postmodernism, and the end of an era ; "Disney world has become a kind of reverse Lourdes": from Stanley Elkin back to Basile ; "A benign fairy tale out of the Brothers Grimm": memoirs and the magic of reality ; "Everything beautiful is gone": beasts of the Southern wild and a new beginning.