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Fairy godfather : Straparola, Venice, and the fairy tale tradition / Ruth B. Bottigheimer.
LIBRA PQ4634.S7 P523 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bottigheimer, Ruth B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557?. Piacevoli notti.
- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco.
- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557?--Homes and haunts--Italy--Venice.
- Straparola, Giovanni Francesco, approximately 1480-1557?.
- Fairy tales.
- Venice (Italy)--Intellectual life--16th century.
- Venice (Italy).
- Fairy tales in literature.
- Magic in literature.
- Fairy tales--Italy--History and criticism.
- Italy.
- Italy--Venice.
- Physical Description:
- 156 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- ""Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition" makes the case that the fairy tale, far from rising from the ground as a rural folk tradition, was invented by a city-bound sixteenth-century Italian literary hack, Zoan Francesco Straparola."--Adam Gopnik, "New Yorker"
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-150) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Given to the Penn Libraries by Margy Ellin Meyerson in memory of her husband, President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.
- ISBN:
- 0812236807
- OCLC:
- 49873331
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