Cycles of influence : fiction, folktale, theory / / Stephen Benson
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| Autore: |
Benson Stephen (Stephen Frank)
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| Titolo: |
Cycles of influence : fiction, folktale, theory / / Stephen Benson
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| Pubblicazione: | Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 809/.9113 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature and folklore |
| Postmodernism (Literature) | |
| Tales - History and criticism | |
| Fiction - History and criticism | |
| 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-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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The arguments presented will interest not only folklorists and scholars of narrative but readers in fields ranging from comparative literature to feminist theory. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cycles of influence |
| ISBN: | 0-8143-3909-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817098403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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