Bottigheimer Fairy Tales Framed

Early Forewords, Afterwords, and Critical Words
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4222-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Translations of the forewords and afterwords by original fairy tale authors and commentaries by their contemporaries, material that has not been widely published in English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. An Introduction to Fairy Tales and the Boccaccian Literary Model

1. An Introduction to Fairy Tales

2. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (begun circa 1350)

II. Fairy Tales in Italy: Early Authors, Theorists, and Critics

3. The Literary Fairy Tale in Italy

4. Giovan Francesco Straparola, The Pleasant Nights (1551, 1553)

5. Andrea Calmo, “Letter to Signora Frondosa” (1556)

6. Girolamo Bargagli, Dialogue on Games That Are Played during the Sienese Veglie (1572, written 1563)

7. Giambattista Basile, The Tale of Tales (Dedication for Day 1, 1634)

8. Girolamo Brusoni, The Glories of the Incogniti, Or the Illustrious Men of the Academy of the “Unknown Gentlemen” (1647)

9. Pompeo Sarnelli, Foreword to Giambattista Basile’s Pentamerone (1674) and Foreword to An Outing to Posillipo (1684)

10. Bartolomeo Lupardi, “Dedicatory Letter to Signor Giuseppe Spada” (1679)

11. Maddalena and Teresa Manfredi, and Teresa and Angiola Zanotti, The Gossip on the Chair (1742)

12. Ferdinando Galiani, On the Neapolitan Dialect (1779)

13. Luigi Serio, The Fart. Response to On the Neapolitan Dialect (1780)

III. Fairy Tales in France: Establishing non

14. Fairy Tales and Fairyland Fictions in France

15. Charles Perrault, Griselda, Novella, with the Tale of Donkeyskin and That of the Ridiculous Wishes. Fourth Edition (1695)

16. Charles Perrault, Tales of My Mother Goose (1695)

17. Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, Diverse Works (1696)

18. Catherine Bernard, “Prince Rosebush” and “Ricky of Tuft” in Inès of Cordova: A Spanish Novel (1696)

19. Mercure galant, Extract from The History of the Marquise / Marquis of Banneville (September 1696)

20. Charles Perrault, Histories, or Tales of Past Times (1697) Licence

21. [Editor] Mercure galant, Presentation of Histories, or Tales of Past Times (January 1697)

22. Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Tales of the Fairies (1697) and New Tales, or The Fashionable Fairies (1698)

23. Charlotte Rose de La Force, “Notice Concerning the Following Story” in
The Tales of the Tales (1698)

24. Henriette Julie de Murat, Sublime and Allegorical Histories (1699)

25. Abbé Pierre de Villiers, Conversations about the Contes de Fées and some other works of our time, to serve as an antidote to bad taste, dedicated to the gentlemen of the Académie Française (1699)

26. Antoine Galland, Thousand and One Nights. Arab Tales Translated into French (1704-1717)

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Über Autor(innen)

Ruth B. Bottigheimer teaches European fairy tales and British children's literature at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. She is the author of several books, including Fairy Tales: A New History, also published by SUNY Press, and Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition.