Cycles of influence : fiction, folktale, theory / Stephen Benson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benson, Stephen (Stephen Frank)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and folklore.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Tales--History and criticism.

Tales.

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The arguments presented will interest not only folklorists and scholars of narrative but readers in fields ranging from comparative literature to feminist theory.

Contents:

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Tales in Theory: The Role of the Folktale in the Development of Narratology 2. Theory in Tales: Cycles, Levels, and Frames 3. The Idea of the Folktale in Italo Calvino Italian Folktales: Text and Contexts First Idea: Tradition and Ideology Second Idea: Singular Fantasies Third Idea: A "Geometry of Story-Telling" 4. Narrative Turns John Barth, Author of the Arabian Nights. "Familiarity Breeds Consent": Robert Coover and the Fairy Tale 5. Craftiness and Cruelty: A Reading of the Fairy Tale and Its Place in Recent Feminist Fictions "Curiosity ... Is Insubordination in Its Purest Form" Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814339091

0814339093

OCLC:

849944708