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Italian Popular Tales: Italian Popular Tales

By Jack Zipes , Thomas Frederick Crane

Book information

Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Year
2001
ISBN
157607272X, 9781576072721, 9781576075531
Open Library ID
OL12237474M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1900571 bytes)
Pages
387\387
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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.

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