Beautiful Angiola

Beautiful Angiola PDF Author: Laura Gonzenbach
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415968089
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Collected by Laura Gonzenbach, this anthology of Sicilian folk and fairy tales is now translated into English for the first time.

Beautiful Angiola

Beautiful Angiola PDF Author: Laura Gonzenbach
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415968089
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Collected by Laura Gonzenbach, this anthology of Sicilian folk and fairy tales is now translated into English for the first time.

The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales

The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales PDF Author:
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624660347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. This is the period of the Golden Age of folk and fairy tales, when European folklorists sought to understand and redefine the present through the common tales of the past, and long neglected stories became recognized as cultural treasures. In this rich collection, distinguished expert of fairy tales Jack Zipes continues his lifelong exploration of the story-telling tradition with a focus on the Golden Age. Included are one hundred eighty-two tales--many available in English for the first time--grouped into eighteen tale types. Zipes provides an engaging general Introduction that discusses the folk and fairy tale tradition, the impact of the Brothers Grimm, and the significance of categorizing tales into various types. Short introductions to each tale type that discuss its history, characteristics, and variants provide readers with important background information. Also included are annotations, short biographies of folklorists of the period, and a substantial bibliography. Eighteen original art works by students of the art department of Anglia Ruskin University not only illustrate the eighteen tale types, but also provide delightful—and sometimes astonishing—21st-century artistic interpretations of them.

Italian Popular Tales

Italian Popular Tales PDF Author: Thomas Frederick Crane
Publisher: Boston, Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Italian Popular Tales

Italian Popular Tales PDF Author: Thomas Frederick Crane
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 373402935X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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Reproduction of the original: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane

Italian Popular Tales

Italian Popular Tales PDF Author: Crane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Creative Storytelling

Creative Storytelling PDF Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113666162X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers, librarians, and schoolteachers to be active in this magical process, Zipes proposes an interactive storytelling that creates and strengthens a sense of community for students, teachers and parents while extolling storytelling as animation, subversion, and self-discovery.

The Robber with a Witch's Head

The Robber with a Witch's Head PDF Author: Jack Zipes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113587705X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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The Robber with the Witch's Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller's dream, full of adventure and magic, translated by Jack Zipes.

The Leisure Hour

The Leisure Hour PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 834

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The Studio

The Studio PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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The Pleasant Nights - Volume 1

The Pleasant Nights - Volume 1 PDF Author: Don Beecher
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442699523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 777

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Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480–c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature readers’ and seventeen proto-fairy tales. Nearly all of these stories, including classics such as ‘Puss in Boots,’ made their first ever appearance in this collection; together, the tales comprise one of the most varied and engaging Renaissance miscellanies ever produced. Its appeal sustained it through twenty-six editions in the first sixty years. This full critical edition of The Pleasant Nights presents these stories in English for the first time in over a century. The text takes its inspiration from the celebrated Waters translation, which is entirely revised here to render it both more faithful to the original and more sparkishly idiomatic than ever before. The stories are accompanied by a rich sampling of illustrations, including originals from nineteenth-century English and French versions of the text. As a comprehensive critical and historical edition, these volumes contain far more information on the stories than can be found in any existing studies, literary histories, or Italian editions of the work. Donald Beecher provides a lengthy introduction discussing Straparola as an author, the nature of fairy tales and their passage through oral culture, and how this phenomenon provides a new reservoir of stories for literary adaptation. Moreover, the stories all feature extensive commentaries analysing not only their themes but also their fascinating provenances, drawing on thousands of analogue tales going back to ancient Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic stories. Immensely entertaining and readable, The Pleasant Nights will appeal to anyone interested in fairy tales, ancient stories, and folk creations. Such readers will also enjoy Beecher’s academically solid and erudite commentaries, which unfold in a manner as light and amusing as the stories themselves.