05036nam 2200769 450 991045678110332120200520144314.01-4426-8808-410.3138/9781442688087(CKB)2550000000019261(OCoLC)635459101(CaPaEBR)ebrary10381955(SSID)ssj0000478282(PQKBManifestationID)11291881(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478282(PQKBWorkID)10419252(PQKB)11530865(CaPaEBR)430777(CaBNvSL)slc00224371(MiAaPQ)EBC3268172(MiAaPQ)EBC4672589(DE-B1597)465383(OCoLC)1013937272(OCoLC)944176640(DE-B1597)9781442688087(Au-PeEL)EBL4672589(CaPaEBR)ebr11258250(OCoLC)958581451(EXLCZ)99255000000001926120160923h20082008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFairy-tale science monstrous generation in the tales of Straparola and Basile /Suzanne MagnaniniToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2008.©20081 online resource (232 p.) Toronto Italian Studies0-8020-9754-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Science Fictions -- 1. Facts and Favole -- 2. Wonder Tales in the Age of the Marvellous -- 3. 'Con l'uno e l'altro sesso': Gender, Genre, and Monstrosity in Straparola's Frame Tale -- 4. 'Per far vere le favole': Manipulating Maternal Desire in Basile's Frame Tale -- 5. Bestiality and Interclass Marriage in Straparola's 'Il re porco' -- 6. Foils and Fakes: Manufactured Monsters and the Dragon-Slayer -- 7. Fertile Flatulence: Monstrous Paternity in Basile's 'Viola' -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexBetween 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as 'fairy tales,' these stories had many guises and inhabited a variety of literary texts. The first two collections of such fairy tales published on the continent, Giovan Francesco Straparola's Le piacevoli notti and Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti, were greeted with much enthusiasm at home and abroad and essentially established a new literary genre. Contrary to popular thought, Italy, not Germany or France, was the birthplace of the literary fairy tale.This fascination with the marvellous also extended to the worlds of science, medicine, philosophy, and religion, and many treatises from the period focused on discussions of monsters, demons, magic, and witchcraft. In Fairy-Tale Science Suzanne Magnanini looks at these 'science fictions' and explores the birth and evolution of the literary fairy tale in the context of early modern discourses on the monstrous. She demonstrates how both the normative literary theories of the Italian intellectual establishment and the emerging New Science limited the genre's success on its native soil. Natural philosophers, physicians, and clergymen positioned the fairy tale in opposition in opposition to science, fixing it as a negative pole in a binary system, one which came to define both a new type of scientific inquiry and the nascent literary genre. Magnanini also suggests that, by identifying their literary production with the monstrous and the feminine, Straparola and Basile contributed to the marginalization of the new genre.A wide-ranging yet carefully crafted study, Fairy-Tale Science investigates the complex interplay between scientific discourse and an emerging literary genre, and expands our understanding of the early modern European imagination.Toronto Italian studies.Monsters in literatureFairy talesItalyHistory and criticismLiterature and scienceItalyHistoryMonstersFolkloreItalian fiction16th centuryHistory and criticismItalian fiction17th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Monsters in literature.Fairy talesHistory and criticism.Literature and scienceHistory.MonstersItalian fictionHistory and criticism.Italian fictionHistory and criticism.398.20945/0903Magnanini Suzanne906399MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456781103321Fairy-tale science2027000UNINA