03412nam 2200601Ia 450 991046571420332120200520144314.00-8143-3909-3(CKB)2560000000101942(EBL)3416507(SSID)ssj0000885917(PQKBManifestationID)11510919(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885917(PQKBWorkID)10815111(PQKB)10413873(MiAaPQ)EBC3416507(Au-PeEL)EBL3416507(CaPaEBR)ebr10715406(OCoLC)849944708(EXLCZ)99256000000010194220020530d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCycles of influence[electronic resource] fiction, folktale, theory /Stephen BensonDetroit Wayne State University Pressc20031 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8143-2949-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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 ""Literature and folklorePostmodernism (Literature)TalesHistory and criticismFictionHistory and criticismElectronic books.Literature and folklore.Postmodernism (Literature)TalesHistory and criticism.FictionHistory and criticism.809/.9113Benson Stephen(Stephen Frank)968693MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465714203321Cycles of influence2200361UNINA