1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777730003321

Autore

Bottigheimer Ruth B

Titolo

Fairy tales : a new history / / Ruth B. Bottigheimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y. : , : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, , c2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4384-2533-3

1-4416-0869-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (vii, 152 pages)

Disciplina

398.209

Soggetti

Fairy tales - History and criticism

Folk literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-144) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Why a new history of fairy tales? -- Two accounts of the Grimm's tales : the folk as creator, the book as source -- The late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century layers : Perrault, Lhéritier, and their successors -- The two inventors of fairy tale tradition : Giambattista Basile (1634-1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553) -- A new history.

Sommario/riassunto

This work overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission. Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral traditions of peasants and were recorded for posterity by the Brothers Grimm during the nineteenth century. The author overturns this view in this account of the origins of these well loved stories. Charles Perrault created Cinderella and her fairy godmother, but no countrywoman whispered this tale into Perrault's ear. Instead, his Cinderella appeared only after he had edited it from the book of often amoral tales published by Giambattista Basile in Naples. Distinguishing fairy tales from folktales and showing the influence of the medieval romance on them, the author documents how fairy tales originated as urban writing for urban readers and listeners. Working backward from the Grimms to the



earliest known sixteenth-century fairy tales of the Italian Renaissance, she argues for a book based history of fairy tales. The first new approach to fairy tale history in decades, this book answers questions about where fairy tales came from and how they spread, illuminating a narrative process long veiled by surmise and assumption.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969013403321

Autore

Power Natsu Onoda

Titolo

God of comics : Osamu Tezuka and the creation of post-World War II manga / / Natsu Onoda Power

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, c2009

ISBN

1-282-48481-8

1-282-48528-8

9786612484810

9786612485282

1-60473-478-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Great comics artists series

Disciplina

741.5/952

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - Japan - History and criticism

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

List of illustrations -- Notes on Japanese names, titles, and reading order -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and some definitions -- Tezuka in history/History in Tezuka -- Movie in a book -- Stars and jokes -- Communities and competitions -- Sapphire and other heroines -- Tormenting affairs with animation -- Low humor/high drama, the two faces of adult comics -- God of comics, master of quotations -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. He published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animated films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph.D. in medicine. He is best known for establishing story comics as the mainstream genre in the Japanese



comic book industry, creating narratives with cinematic flow and complex characters. This style influenced all subsequent Japanese output. This book chronicles Tezuka's life and works, placing his creations both in the cultural climate and in the history of Japanese comics.