Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition
Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition makes the case that the fairy tale, far from rising from the ground as a rural folk tradition, was invented by a city-bound sixteenth-century Italian literary hack, Zoan Francesco Straparola.—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition makes the case that the fairy tale, far from rising from the ground as a rural folk tradition, was invented by a city-bound sixteenth-century Italian literary hack, Zoan Francesco Straparola.—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780812236804 (0812236807)
ASIN: 812236807
Publish date: September 16th 2002
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English