02814nam 2200649Ia 450 991095491820332120200520144314.097808143390910814339093(CKB)2560000000101942(EBL)3416507(SSID)ssj0000885917(PQKBManifestationID)11510919(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885917(PQKBWorkID)10815111(PQKB)10413873(MiAaPQ)EBC3416507(Au-PeEL)EBL3416507(CaPaEBR)ebr10715406(OCoLC)849944708(MiAaPQ)EBC31654687(Au-PeEL)EBL31654687(Perlego)4160392(EXLCZ)99256000000010194220020530d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCycles of influence fiction, folktale, theory /Stephen BensonFirst edition.Detroit Wayne State University Pressc20031 online resource (312 pages)Description based upon print version of record.9780814329498 0814329497 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 IndexThe arguments presented will interest not only folklorists and scholars of narrative but readers in fields ranging from comparative literature to feminist theory.Literature and folklorePostmodernism (Literature)TalesHistory and criticismFictionHistory and criticismLiterature and folklore.Postmodernism (Literature)TalesHistory and criticism.FictionHistory and criticism.809/.9113Benson Stephen(Stephen Frank)1804514MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954918203321Cycles of influence4352586UNINA