Fairy tales framed : early forewords, afterwords, and critical words / edited by Ruth B. Bottigheimer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bottigheimer, Ruth B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales--History and criticism.

Fairy tales.

Fairy tales in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Fairy Tales Framed

Contents

Acknowledgments

Address to the Reader

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. Maddelena 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 and Fairyl and Fictions in France:Establishing the Canon

14. Fairy Tales and Fairyland Fictions in France

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

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

17. Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon,Diverse Works1 (1696)

18. Catherine Bernard, "Prince Rosebush" and"Ricky of the Tuft" inInès of Cordova: A Spanish Novel (1696)

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

20. Charles Perrault, Histories, or Tales of Past Times, with Morals (1697) License

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

22. Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy,Tales of the Fairies (1697)2 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 tothe gentlemen of the Académie Française (1699)

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

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438442228

143844222X

9781461907343

1461907349

OCLC:

794780816