ISBN:
9780691224657
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (232 p.)
,
10 b/w illus
Edition:
2021
Series Statement:
Oddly Modern Fairy Tales 25
DDC:
398.20945
Keywords:
Fairy tales
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Folk literature, Italian Translations into English
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Shapeshifting
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Anthologie
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Anthologie
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Anthologie
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Anthologie
Abstract:
A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales-most appearing here in English for the first timeThe Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italy's political unification. In those decades of political and social change, folklorists collected fairy tales from many regions of the country while influential writers invented original narratives in standard Italian, drawing on traditional tales in local dialects, and translated others from France. This collection features a range of these entertaining jewels from such authors as Carlo Collodi, most celebrated for the novel Pinocchio, and Domenico Comparetti, regarded as the Italian Grimm, to Grazia Deledda, the only Italian woman to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. With one exception, all of these tales are appearing in English for the first time.The stories in this volume are linked by themes of metamorphosis: a man turns into a lion, a dove, and an ant; a handsome youth emerges from a pig's body; and three lovely women rise out of the rinds of pomegranates. There are also more introspective transformations: a self-absorbed princess learns about manners, a melancholy prince finds joy again, and a complacent young woman discovers gratitude. Cristina Mazzoni provides a comprehensive introduction that situates the tales in their cultural and historical context. The collection also includes period illustrations and biographical notes about the authors.Filled with adventures, supernatural and fantastic events, and brave and flawed protagonists, The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales will delight, surprise, and astonish.
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)
DOI:
10.1515/9780691224657
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691224657
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691224657
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