Giambattista Basile's the Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones, Ha...

by Giambattista Basile

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Giambattista Basile's the Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones, Hardcover by Basile, Giambattista; Zipes, Jack David (FRW); Canepa, Nancy L. (TRN); Lettere, Carmelo (ILT), ISBN 0814342574, ISBN-13 9780814342572, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The Tale of Tales, made up of forty-nine fairy tales within a fiftieth frame story, contains the earliest versions of celebrated stories like Rapunzel, All-Fur, Hansel and Gretel, The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. The tales are bawdy and irreverent but also tender and whimsical, acute in psychological characterization and encyclopedic in description. They are also evocative of marvelous worlds of fairy-tale unreality as well as of the everyday rituals of life in seventeenth-century Naples. Yet because the original is written in the nonstandard Neopolitan dialect of Italian'and was last translated fully into English in 1932'this important piece of Baroque literature has long been inaccessible to both the general public and most fairy-tale scholars. Giambattista Basile's "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones" is a modern translation that preserves the distinctive character of Basile's original. Working directly from the original Neopolitan version, translator Nancy L. Canepa takes pains to maintain the idiosyncratic tone of The Tale of Tales as well as the work's unpredictable structure. This edition keeps the repetition, experimental syntax, and inventive metaphors of th

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Year: 2016
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780814342572
• Condition: Fine

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