Fairy godfather
Straparola, Venice, and the fairy tale tradition
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Author
Publication
2002 - University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Language
English
Word Count
39,000 words, Guess
Page Count
156 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefairygodfatherst0000bott
- ISBN-100812236807
- ISBN-139780812236804
- Goodreads1613133
- LibraryThing610169
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- Library of Congress Control Number2002020425
- OCLC Control Number49873331
- Better World Books9780812236804
- Open LibraryOL3558951M
Classifications
- DDC853/.409
- LCCPQ4634.S7 P523 2002
- LCCPQ4634.S7P523 2002
Description
"In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of these familiar tales. According to her, a provincial boy, Zoan Francesco Straparola, went to Venice to seek his fortune and found it by inventing the modern fairy tale, including the long beloved "Puss in Boots," and by selling its many versions to the hopeful inhabitants of that colorful and commercially bustling city.". "With literary sleuthing, Bottigheimer has reconstructed the actual composition of Straparola's collection of tales. Grounding her work in the social history of Renaissance Venice, Bottigheimer has created a possible biography for Straparola, a man about whom hardly anything is known. This is the first book-length study of Straparola in any language."--BOOK JACKET.
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