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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465714203321

Autore

Benson Stephen (Stephen Frank)

Titolo

Cycles of influence [[electronic resource] ] : fiction, folktale, theory / / Stephen Benson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8143-3909-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

809/.9113

Soggetti

Literature and folklore

Postmodernism (Literature)

Tales - History and criticism

Fiction - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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-Tellingâ€?                                                ""; ""4. Narrative Turns                         ""; ""John Barth, Author of the Arabian Nights                                               ""

""“Familiarity Breeds Consentâ€?: 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 Formâ€?                                                              ""; ""Conclusion                 ""; ""Notes            ""; ""Bibliography                   ""; ""Index            ""