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Fairytales : a world between the imaginary : metaphor at play in "Lo cunto de li cunti" by Giambattista Basile / By Carmela Bernadetta Scala.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scala, Carmela Bernardetta, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales in literature.
- Metaphor in literature.
- Basile, Giambattista, approximately 1575-1632. Pentamerone.
- Basile, Giambattista.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book investigates Basiles contribution to the establishment of fairytales as a literary genre; the focus is on his masterpiece Lo cunto de li Cunti. The volume examines Basiles works debt to tradition and its influence on posterity, while also studying the authors unique use of metaphors in the rich Neapolitan dialect. As this study reveals, metaphors in Lo cunto de li cunti are not used simply as a mean of embellishment; rather they are employed as a way to inform the reader of the.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- APPENDIX
- NOTES
- IMAGES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 905862133
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