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: 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: Thomas Frederick Crane
Publisher: Boston, Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Italian Popular Tales

Italian Popular Tales PDF Author: Thomas Frederick Crane
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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An important reintroduction to this literature, this compilation of Thomas Crane's original translations of Italian folk stories includes new critical analysis. For 19th-century folklorist Thomas Crane, the value of collecting, translating, and reproducing folktales lay in their "internationalism"—their capacity to reveal how the customs of a particular group, no matter how unique, are linked to many others. In his classic collection, edited and updated by contemporary folklorist Jack Zipes, Crane traces the roots of Italian folktales to their origins, often in the Orient, then shows how they diffused in unpredictable and marvelous ways throughout Italy and over the centuries. A contemporary of the brothers Grimm, Crane offers a richer, more complex selection of oral and literary tales. Unlike the Grimms, he doesn't edit or modify the tales, which deal openly with surprisingly contemporary subjects: murder, adultery, incest, child abuse, and brutal vengeance.

Italian Popular Tales (Classic Reprint)

Italian Popular Tales (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Thomas Frederick Crane
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528063340
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Excerpt from Italian Popular Tales The growing interest in the popular tales of Europe has led me to believe that a selection from those of Italy would be entertaining to the general reader, and valuable to the student of comparative folk-lore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Italian Tales

Italian Tales PDF Author: Massimo Riva
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This anthology serves as a literary map to guide readers through the varied geography of contemporary Italian fiction. Massimo Riva has gathered English-language translations of short stories and excerpts from novels that were originally published in Italian between 1975 and 2001. As an expression of a communal contemporary condition, these narratives suggest a new sensibility and a new way of seeing, exploring, and inhabiting the world, in writing. Riva provides a comprehensive introduction to Italian literary trends of the past twenty years. Each selection is preceded by a short introduction and biography of the writer. For English-language readers who are familiar with the work of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, this collection presents an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the work of other important contemporary Italian writers of fiction.

Italy

Italy PDF Author: Anne Calcagno
Publisher: Travelers' Tales Guides
ISBN: 9781885211729
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This collection of the best literature on life and travel in Italy is completely revised and updated, and features articles from authors that include Tim Parks, Patricia Hampl, Mary Taylor Simeti, and others. Illustrations. Maps.

Italian Folktales

Italian Folktales PDF Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544283228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 799

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One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times). Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres—as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals—these two hundred tales bring to life Italy’s folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, sometimes with noble mystery, and sometimes with the playfulness of sheer nonsense. Selected and retold by one of the country’s greatest literary icons, “this collection stands with the finest folktale collections anywhere” (The New York Times Book Review). “For readers of any age . . . A masterwork.” —The Wall Street Journal “A magic book, and a classic to boot.” —Time

Biancabella and Other Italian Fairy Tales

Biancabella and Other Italian Fairy Tales PDF Author: Anne Macdonell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486416618
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Presents a collection of fairy tales, including "Companions of the forest" and "Rags-and-Tatters."

Italian Popular Tales

Italian Popular Tales PDF Author: Thomas F. Crane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849020889
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Goat-Faced Girl

The Goat-Faced Girl PDF Author:
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 1567923933
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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When Isabella, a beautiful but lazy young woman, agrees to marry an equally lazy prince, the sorceress who raised her gives her the head of a goat in hopes that she will learn to do things for herself.